To the Editor: We write in response to the letter by Awerbuch1 and agree with many of his points. He has raised an interesting issue regarding the assertion that chronic pain is itself a disease,2 suggesting it would then logically follow that the patient becomes the final arbiter of whether he or she has the “disease” and hence which treatment may or may not be appropriate.
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