Symptoms are prevalent, such as pain, fatigue, dyspnea, depression, and insomnia -- even in diseases that we wouldn't consider to be painful (such as COPD and HF). People who have the latter conditions also have pain syndromes based on other health problems.

Relief of symptoms is the #1 goal so that people can attend to the other areas of their life that are important. Physicians have to do a screen of all of the common symptoms, and then treat them aggressively.

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