{"text":"Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . Pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.","author":"Marcia Angell","tags":["chronic-pain","mercy","wisdom"],"id":142867,"author_id":"Marcia+Angell"}