Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief
Latif Nasser: Историята на човека , открил нов начин за третиране болката.
Latif Nasser is the director of research at Radiolab, where he has reported on such disparate topics as culture-bound illnesses, snowflake photography, sinking islands and 16th-century automata. Full bio
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causing crippling, chronic pain.
for her to brush her teeth.
the history of chronic pain.
history of pain collection
a fantastic story --
millions of people from pain;
of him, no Hollywood movies.
Johnny "Bull" Walker.
in the tiny town of Brookfield, New York.
the wire-walkers, the tramp clowns --
Johnny "Bull" Walker,
a voice rang out
in the live animal tent.
with the lion tamer.
inside the lion's mouth.
to the ground, motionless.
mouth-to-mouth, and saved his life.
a third-year medical student.
during summers to pay tuition,
to protect his persona.
a brute, a villain --
know his secret, either.
an athlete, you were a dumb dodo."
on evenings and weekends.
the Light Heavyweight Champion
lived these parallel lives.
but over the next five decades,
to think about pain.
so much so, that decades later,
pain relief's founding father.
medical school and married Emma,
at one of his matches years before.
St. Vincent's Hospital paid nothing.
he wrestled in big-ticket venues,
Angelo Savoldi.
scratched a scar like Capone's
he had to wear a surgical mask to hide it.
with one eye so bruised,
his mangled cauliflower ears.
on the sides of his head.
into labor at his hospital.
out to the intern on duty
to ease her pain.
just three weeks on the job --
and started to turn blue.
pushed the intern out of the way,
and his unborn daughter.
to devote his life to anesthesiology.
the epidural, for delivering mothers.
to Madigan Army Medical Center,
army hospitals in America.
of all pain control there.
Bonica started noticing cases
he had learned.
a kind of alarm bell -- in a good way --
like a broken arm.
of pain in that nonexistent leg.
would the alarm bell keep ringing?
камбаната за тревога продължи да звъни?
was no evidence of an injury whatsoever,
at his hospital -- surgeons,
their opinions on his patients.
group meetings over lunch.
going up against the patient's pain.
this way before.
he could get his hands on,
of the word "pain."
on 17 and a half of them.
most frustrating part of being a patient.
can you come to there?
from the patient's perspective,
Bonica would talk about it.
those missing pages.
as the Bible of Pain.
nerve-block injections.
the Pain Clinic,
about his book
alarm bell for medicine.
to take pain seriously
in the mid-'70s.
all over the world.
caught up to him.
for over 20 years,
had left a mark on his body.
severe osteoarthritis.
he'd have 22 surgeries,
his arm, turn his neck.
became his doctors.
had more nerve-block injections
he worked even more --
than just his job,
form of relief.
he told a reporter at the time,
in the early 1980s,
him to the Hyde Park area in Tampa.
and pulled up to an old mansion,
hidden in the garage.
American circus royalty.
the Human Cannonball.
now, including Bonica,
what they said that day.
cannonballs reunited,
said in an oral history,
and wrestling deeply molded his life.
for him to ignore in others.
a whole new field,
medicine to acknowledge pain
your current life,
in waiting rooms.
that same way.
that my mom's pain holds.
where she worked.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Latif Nasser - Radio researcherLatif Nasser is the director of research at Radiolab, where he has reported on such disparate topics as culture-bound illnesses, snowflake photography, sinking islands and 16th-century automata.
Why you should listen
The history of science is "brimming with tales stranger than fiction," says Latif Nasser, who wrote his PhD dissertation on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962. A writer and researcher, Nasser is now the research director at Radiolab, a job that allows him to dive into archives, talk to interesting people and tell stories as a way to think about science and society.
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