"I have declared war on pain."

"The proper management of pain remains, after all, the most important obligation, the main objective, and the crowning…"

"The crucial role of psychological and environmental factors in causing pain in a significant number of patients only …"

"Nearly one-third of the population has persistent or recurrent chronic pain—and of those, one-half to two-thirds are …"

"No medical school has a pain curriculum..."

"What the hell kind of conclusion can you come to there? The most important thing, from the patient's perspective, the…"

"The continuum—stretching from a pole of "healing through techniques" to the pole of "healing through management"—is n…"

"Some fragmentation of the principles espoused by Dr. Bonica more than forty years ago has occurred, and unidisciplina…"

"Dr. John Bonica, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington and founder of the Multidisplinary Pain …"

"Pain—one of the most pressing issues of out time."