Haider Warraich Mines the Nature of Pain in 'The Song of Our Scars'

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🗓️ 19 April 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Coming up on forum, we explore the nature of pain with Hydro Verreich, a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital
0:55.5	who lives with chronic pain after severely injuring his back while in medical school.
1:00.9	In my darkest days, says Verite, I wasn't even sure I could ever practice medicine at all.
1:06.9	This hour, we look at the many things that affect our experience of pain and hear about new
1:12.1	ways to understand and live with pain rather than always fighting to avoid or eradicate
1:18.0	it.
1:19.0	Their righteous new book is The Song of Our Scars.
1:23.2	Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Physician Hedri Verra says pain is universal, one of the most
1:40.8	consistent things we all experience, and yet how we hurt is so personal to us that it's the one thing we truly own. In his new book, The Song of Our Scars, Verite shows us pain is more than just a physical sensation. It's shaped by social and cultural experiences. And Verroich himself lives with chronic pain.
2:03.5	He's a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
2:05.9	and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
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