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Volume 3 (2016): Issue 1

Pain: lessons from the past can inform the present and future

Abstract

Abstract

Pain is a phenomenon that accompanies a person with haemophilia (PWH) and many others with bleeding disorders from birth to death. Caregivers are not immune. For you cannot provide care, either as a loved one or a health care provider, and watch someone in pain without experiencing pain yourself.

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Authors

  • Michelle Witkop

    mwitkop@mhc.net
    DNP, FNP-BC, Doctor of Nursing Practice and Bleeding Disorders Nurse Practitioner, Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, Michigan, USA