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pain  

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  • Pain affects more than 50 million Americans yearly, accounting for more than 80% of all visits to physicians and costing more than $70 billion annually in health care and lost productivity. Life without pain would be difficult. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Pain]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/pain

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