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Expectations, Coping, Cultural and Environmental Factors

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Ethnicity and culture play a very important role in how patients are being treated for their chronic pain conditions. They impact the experience of pain, the threshold to complain, and the decisions by health care providers to treat.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Ravi Grandhi

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    John P. Lawrence

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    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Abd-Elsayed, A., Grandhi, R., Lawrence, J.P. (2019). Expectations, Coping, Cultural and Environmental Factors. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_78

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