Forum from the Archives: 'The Song of Our Scars' Surveys Chronic Pain in All Its Complexities

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Pain is a "hallmark of consciousness among all beings," writes physician Haider Warraich in his new book "The Song of Our Scars." Pain, he explains, is also gendered, racial and above all so personal that it's the one thing truly our own. Like an estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide, Warraich himself lives with chronic pain, brought on by a devastating back injury. We'll talk to Warraich about the biology of pain and how we experience what he calls our most complicated sensation. Guests: Haider Warraich, author, "The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain." He's also a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.8	All this week on forum, we're listening back to shows from our archives
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0:59.8	Today we talk with lead producer Susie Britton about my April interview with
1:03.4	Heter Verreich, a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
1:06.8	who lives with chronic pain after severely injuring his back while in medical school.
1:11.4	In my darkest days, says Verreich, I wasn't even sure I could ever practice medicine at all.
1:17.3	The righteous new book is The Song of Our Scars,
1:20.1	all about the many ways that affect the way we hurt and about new ways to live with pain.
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