She said patients were often not given medicine to control pain until they were suffering badly.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Today many doctors order pain medicines for dying patients to be given before suffering takes hold.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Doctors say those suffering muscle pain should stop all activity and rest in a cool place.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Some patients are misdiagnosed as suffering from depression because many of the symptoms are the same - poor sleep patterns, depressed feelings and pain all over the body.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

"The pain and suffering,as I said, will remain forever,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.24