Millions of people who live with chronic pain experience intense stigma.  Health care providers are a major source of it, but so are intimate partners, family caregivers, insurers, and policymakers.  Stigma isolates people, causes suffering, and violates basic obligations to treat people fairly and with dignity. Accordingly, we should intervene to alleviate it. Read the full article.

Eric G. Campbell and Julie Ressalam are co-authors of "Knowledge Of Practicing Physicians About Their Legal Obligations When Caring For Patients With Disability, recognized as one of Health Affairs TOP TEN Articles of 2019.