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Archive: Role of Lab Testing in Pain Medicine: Objectifying the Subjective

834 views · Published 15 September 2009 · 54:26 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: UW Video · 2009 · Education

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Pain patients can be difficult. They have a tendency to be angry, mistrustful, anxious and depressed. In return this provokes among clinicians negative feelings of frustration, resentment and dislike, challenging the therapeutic dialogue. It seems that more-or-less similar patients, with more-or-less similar symptoms and diagnosis, with more-or-less similar treatments, manifest radically different outcomes. Why is this? Is there a way to explore the Subjectivity of Pain? Is there a way to Objectify the Subjective? Dr. Alex Cahana, Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, at the University of Washington begins to grapple with these troubling questions in this presentation.

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