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Ethical Challenges and Interventional Pain Medicine

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The authors wish to thank James Rathmell for his input.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Center for Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wang Ambulatory Care Center Suite 340, 15 Parkman Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Gary J. Brenner

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Karsten Kueppenbender

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Karsten Kueppenbender

  4. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Center for Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wang Ambulatory Care Center Suite 333, 15 Parkman Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Jianren Mao

  5. The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

    Jeffrey Spike

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Brenner, G.J., Kueppenbender, K., Mao, J. et al. Ethical Challenges and Interventional Pain Medicine. Curr Pain Headache Rep 16, 1–8 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-011-0242-y

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