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Rethinking how doctors are taught to treat pain

Pain is the most common reason that people go to the doctor. Yet physicians and medical students have limited training in pain management and prescribing opioids. As the nation suffers from an opioid epidemic, people within the medical field are reexamining what doctors are taught about pain.. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker reports.

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