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In his book "The Gift of Pain", (previously titled "The Gift Nobody Wants"), Dr Paul Brand describes the various aspects of physical pain and how it protects us from injury in our normal day to day activities. In medical school, he had conducted a detailed dissection of a brain and discovered the incredibly intricate neural pathways through which pain, as well as other stimuli, are directed into that amazing organ. When he began practicing medicine he worked on surgical repairs on people who were constantly injuring themselves because they had lost the ability to sense pain. Unattended, th...
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