Too many people don't believe how much pain someone else can experience. We tend to measure pain by how much medication is used, not by the pain itself. Many people in pain feel their reports are seen as fancied or slanted. Pain clinics are sprouting up throughout the country. They bring the problems of pain into open study.
People go to pain clinics when the mainstream medical skills fail to fix the basic problem.
A pain clinic referral is usually the last item on the list. It is made when nothing else works. Pain control is as much a clinical as an ethical and political issue. This project intends to openly study all three aspects. Then, perhaps, more people will suffer less in life once the outdated and unfounded fears of adequate pain control are changed.