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A specific question can easily be replaced by an overall assessment: is the person patient enough, appropriately positive, or asking for assistance too often?\n\nThis article returns discussion to experience, clinical assessment, and continuing care. It distinguishes duration, location, treatment effects, and access. It prescribes no medicine, dosage change, home treatment for phantom pain, or promise that the right attitude will remove it. The practical section helps formulate a question without making a diary or detailed injury account a condition of care. Fictional scenes are not clinical cases; individual planning and urgency require competent clinical assessment.", "short_answer_source": { "kind": "explicit_about_h2", "role": "lead", "start_utf16": 483, "end_utf16": 1498, "sha256_utf8": "93a902def87eae04bf79d08357a2348931c2b97849cd7259767f2e0522917f46" }, "headline_source": { "role": "h1_heading", "start_utf16": 2, "end_utf16": 94, "sha256_utf8": "338424a2062495d52445b46770bd30fcbc63449fcf6345978002a01048530d9b" }, "entities": [], "questions": [ { "q": "Epigraph", "a": "> “Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?”\n\nJob 6:12, *World English Bible*. [Chapter 6](https://ebible.org/engwebp/JOB06.htm). In context, Job answers another speaker amid severe suffering. This is the voice of a person with limits, not an explanation of illness or a requirement to imitate the biblical character.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 99, "end_utf16": 107, "sha256_utf8": "506164fa91d3fcc7e667c9b8789d7d1c30ae76c81c248df15c5c18c1cddf9826" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 109, "end_utf16": 450, "sha256_utf8": "d042074d358592a4ea0f0211913c17f63d2f9aff346aff637fde8f70cb71f821" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0003", "p0004" ], "source_segment_index": 1 }, { "q": "What this article is about", "a": "Pain after injury or amputation may require a conversation that is difficult to prepare for. Someone has to describe a sensation, remember prescriptions, reach a professional, and sometimes convince relatives that a calm voice does not mean an absence of pain. Displacement may divide information and medication access between institutions. A specific question can easily be replaced by an overall assessment: is the person patient enough, appropriately positive, or asking for assistance too often?\n\nThis article returns discussion to experience, clinical assessment, and continuing care. It distinguishes duration, location, treatment effects, and access. It prescribes no medicine, dosage change, home treatment for phantom pain, or promise that the right attitude will remove it. The practical section helps formulate a question without making a diary or detailed injury account a condition of care. Fictional scenes are not clinical cases; individual planning and urgency require competent clinical assessment.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 455, "end_utf16": 481, "sha256_utf8": "a53bdb09d3d545eddde325393d7fae0fb8be199cef905ef433da14435f905db9" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 483, "end_utf16": 1498, "sha256_utf8": "93a902def87eae04bf79d08357a2348931c2b97849cd7259767f2e0522917f46" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0006", "p0007" ], "source_segment_index": 2 }, { "q": "I. Pain need not undergo a moral examination", "a": "In a fictional scene, someone asks to discuss pain and hears, “Other people with injuries like that are already working.” The reply provides no information about their condition. It compares unknown circumstances and assumes that reporting pain means insufficient effort. Discussion can return to what is troubling, how it affects the day, and who can assess appropriate assistance. A need for assessment does not have to be earned by outperforming somebody else's example.\n\nIASP emphasizes pain's personal character and respect for someone's report; difficulty expressing it verbally does not establish its absence. [Pain, in Terminology](https://www.iasp-pain.org/resources/terminology/). This does not mean the cause is already established. Acknowledgment and investigation are compatible. Someone may not understand the mechanism while reporting a real difficulty that cannot be dismissed as an unsuitable attitude.\n\nRespecting a report differs from approving every proposed treatment in advance. A clinician can discuss risks and alternatives; the person can ask about explanations and outcomes. Declining one option should not become a refusal to recognize the need itself. Equally, a relative may not know how to help and need not perform medical certainty. They can honestly offer a manageable action without explaining pain through character, spiritual achievement, or a desire for attention.\n\nA person need not look distressed constantly. Smiling, enjoying a film, or performing one activity does not give observers complete knowledge of the condition. A difficult day alone does not establish its mechanism either. The ethical position is simpler: do not make an overall judgment from one observation. A report can be heard, an appropriate question retained, and further contact discussed without turning ordinary interaction into a court in which convincing proof must be displayed continuously.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 1503, "end_utf16": 1547, "sha256_utf8": "c494f1858364f2ad12c2568aa23ff8e72a951efc70acb6ccc3dcdcb3a5cf5ce5" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 1549, "end_utf16": 3456, "sha256_utf8": "c53af07d6d87062e771798bd4b9271583584fec6818114537724f183b8be23d7" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0009", "p0010", "p0011", "p0012" ], "source_segment_index": 3 }, { "q": "II. Duration and location answer different questions", "a": "“Chronic” describes a prolonged course, whereas “phantom” concerns pain felt in a missing part of a limb. “Residual limb” concerns the part that remains. These are different dimensions of description, not three mutually exclusive diagnoses a reader must select. In the CDC framework used here, chronic pain lasts more than three months. [CDC guideline scope](https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/hcp/clinical-guidance/index.html). Someone should not wait for that threshold before seeking help with troubling pain.\n\nThe NHS separately explains that phantom pain is not imaginary and distinguishes it from residual limb pain. [Amputation, pain section](https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/amputation/). Location helps communicate a question but does not establish a cause on its own. When several sensations coexist, one need not be omitted to obtain a convenient label. A person can describe where each occurs and what changed, leaving assessment to the appropriate professional.\n\nLongstanding pain does not make every new problem a continuation of a known condition. New or worsening changes should be reported according to the instructions received. An immediate threat to life requires local emergency assistance. This article gives no individual urgency decision and does not recommend waiting for a scheduled visit in a dangerous situation. A chronic course describes one aspect of a history; it is not permission to ignore a change or explain it as a habit of complaining.\n\nThe entire vocabulary need not be mastered before an appointment. “Burning,” “shooting,” “pulling,” or another personal description can begin a conversation without becoming a home diagnosis based on one word. Distinguish what is felt from an assumption about its cause. When a professional has used a term, its meaning and remaining questions can be clarified. An understandable explanation is more useful than sounding professional at the expense of details of the experience and concern the person wanted to convey.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 3461, "end_utf16": 3513, "sha256_utf8": "080312a156d17f2e8d2bd60348bd47f266cd28d56813751de9518a505dd29cd6" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 3515, "end_utf16": 5520, "sha256_utf8": "97a1a26a7c3aac529a66d2f0c2e93d69efa3567effded59629d5e8fc203789be" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0014", "p0015", "p0016", "p0017" ], "source_segment_index": 4 }, { "q": "III. Experience can be described without a perfect diary", "a": "Preparation sometimes starts with an elaborate table that soon becomes difficult to maintain. Someone then postpones contact because the record is insufficiently neat. A completed document is not a prerequisite. A few known details can be selected: where and when the concern occurs, what changed, which activity is affected, and what question needs an answer. Uncertainty about timing can be stated. An invented exact date does not improve a history over an honest approximation.\n\nA record can be brief and accessible: several words, a private voice reminder, or a conversation with an agreed helper. Privacy and usability matter more than a single attractive format. There is no need to provoke pain, repeat an action, or omit medication to obtain information. The description concerns what is already occurring in ordinary circumstances. A clinical team may propose an assessment method; this article creates no independent scale or measurement schedule.\n\nDistinguishing a sensation from its consequences may help. “Pain prevents sleep” concerns something different from “Transport prevented me from reaching an appointment.” Both matter but involve different participants. Discussing pain alone may conceal a break in access; discussing only travel may lose the clinical question. Both can be named without immediately assigning diagnoses and blame. Preparation aims to convey a need more accurately rather than prove that a preferred solution was correct in advance.\n\nA helper can record the person's words when agreed and distinguish their own observations. “They said the pain increased” differs from “I thought they moved differently.” Descriptions should not be edited to fit family expectations. If speaking is difficult, an accessible communication method and a trusted adult's involvement can be discussed with the team. Limited energy for a lengthy account should not become a moral reason to leave someone unheard.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 5525, "end_utf16": 5581, "sha256_utf8": "872622fbb7b13771d16f5726f32dec2629fce8eb37d7304895621c0462483d76" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 5583, "end_utf16": 7511, "sha256_utf8": "9c70842bf1000b8efef3b44a0e1111580ba0bfb17a64aa3a4a1719c06bf11ac6" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0019", "p0020", "p0021", "p0022" ], "source_segment_index": 5 }, { "q": "IV. An appointment can end with an understandable next step", "a": "The condition's name may not be the person's only question. What happens after the encounter? How does the team understand the current problem, which information is still needed, what care is proposed, and how will its effects be discussed? These questions require neither an argument in advance nor agreement without explanation. Someone can ask for the main points, repetition, and clarification of instructions applying to them. A polite nod need not end discussion when meaning remains unclear.\n\nIn a fictional scene, a clinician describes several possible directions, while the person hears only “You must get used to it.” A clarifying question can return: “What exactly is proposed now, and when do we discuss whether it helps?” The answer may contain uncertainty. Explaining what is unknown differs from a lack of attention. When no clear answer is available, the remaining question and continuation can be named without presenting a referral as an encounter already completed with the next professional.\n\nIt helps to ask whom to contact before the next appointment if difficulties or changes arise: instructions for this case rather than a universal internet interval. This article schedules no review or method. Interrupted access to the team is a separate condition of the plan. A decision requiring unavailable contact has not yet become practicable. Naming the problem is more useful than agreeing on paper and later having to invent a replacement alone.\n\nDiscussion can include support with memory and language: an accessible record, interpretation, time for a question, or a chosen companion. This establishes no particular diagnosis and does not make the companion the owner of decisions. What information can be shared and which subjects are better discussed privately can be clarified. What matters is not how many recommendations were handed out, but whether the next route is understood as far as circumstances and available assistance permit.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 7516, "end_utf16": 7575, "sha256_utf8": "65a189b649dc44405132e53c4ff4ab96740d5bc85587d0e47cb96e67befc11ff" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 7577, "end_utf16": 9539, "sha256_utf8": "d63a13d9f70038c2598eb00d9787c2ca56de712095af0fe7cae5c9ee9adb72e2" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0024", "p0025", "p0026", "p0027" ], "source_segment_index": 6 }, { "q": "V. Medication can be discussed without shame or self-prescribing", "a": "At an appointment, report medicines and other substances actually taken and difficulties following prescriptions. If a name or regimen is unknown, that can be stated while clarifying how to recover the information. This article does not identify tablets by appearance, substitute similar products, or choose combinations. Questions about benefits, adverse effects, availability, and continuation belong with a competent clinician or a pharmacist within their role.\n\nFor opioid therapy, CDC emphasizes shared consideration of benefits and risks and cautions against abrupt discontinuation except in life-threatening circumstances requiring clinical action. [Continuing Opioid Therapy](https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/hcp/clinical-care/continuing-opioid-therapy.html). This is a clinical framework for defined adult outpatient care in the United States, not a self-directed continuation or tapering schedule. The caution must not be read as an instruction to continue in a suspected dangerous condition; urgent professional assistance is needed rather than selecting an answer from this article.\n\nA request to discuss pain relief does not itself diagnose a substance use disorder. Risks cannot be declared absent merely because pain is real either. Both subjects can be addressed directly without humiliation. Concerns about a prescription, actual use, or use that feels difficult to control deserve discussion with a professional. The goal is individual assessment and further assistance. A family label, internet test, or moral accusation replaces neither clinical discussion nor an assessment of the person's condition.\n\nRelatives should not independently confiscate, add, or reduce medication to settle an argument about character. Immediate danger requires medical assistance. For an ordinary question, they can support contact and accurate information transfer when agreed. Someone need not hide a difficulty to preserve an image of the proper patient. Honesty does not require a public report to every relative: the appropriate recipient depends on the care task rather than general family anxiety and a wish to supervise every step.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 9544, "end_utf16": 9608, "sha256_utf8": "4b33b95aea664df22a949732a5043dc2c3db0b6fb8f6066289c57fcde885097b" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 9610, "end_utf16": 11756, "sha256_utf8": "c74b106c83def108db0b740264d28c32417c7c825798cb8a33cc50ea6cd9b053" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0029", "p0030", "p0031", "p0032" ], "source_segment_index": 7 }, { "q": "VI. Displacement need not become an unnoticed break in the plan", "a": "A move may interrupt a former contact, clarity about prescriptions, and the possibility of continuing care. In a fictional scene, someone has a discharge document but no recipient in the new location has yet accepted the clinical question. The document matters without confirming continuity. Who actually receives the information, who answers a treatment request, and which questions remain before an appointment can be clarified separately. Organizing everything in advance is not always possible, especially during urgent departure from danger.\n\nIf medication is running out or prescribed care has already stopped, do not compensate with an improvised schedule, somebody else's medication, or a doubled dose. Contact competent local medical assistance as soon as possible and explain what has actually happened. Urgency depends on the condition and requires professional judgment; an immediate threat to life needs emergency care. This article establishes no substitute, safe medication-free interval, or rule on carrying medicines across borders. Such answers cannot be inferred universally from the name of the pain.\n\nAn accessible record of known prescriptions and earlier contacts may help transfer. Its absence does not make a person undeserving of care. They can state what survives and what needs recovery through competent participants. Publishing every medical document in an open request for assistance is unnecessary. Disclosure, consent, and a suitable channel relate to a particular recipient. Someone can request help transferring information without surrendering permanent control over their medical data.\n\nName an obstacle specifically: transport is missing, a professional is unavailable, calls do not connect, or the destination is unclear. This does not describe a poor treatment attitude. A relative can take a manageable organizational role when agreed and honestly state its limits. A child is not responsible for medication supplies or an adult's condition. When contact has not occurred, an open question remains. A promise to send a message differs from an actual clinical answer; both should appear accurately in the shared picture.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 11761, "end_utf16": 11824, "sha256_utf8": "7555ca071cdbe08155833c179f59873cd8d6b09d6e6f6397e563ef393e24ea7b" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 11826, "end_utf16": 13986, "sha256_utf8": "207ee367a4dbab9ab459250b0d369dfe50326c506d143793b686ce7b83141646" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0034", "p0035", "p0036", "p0037" ], "source_segment_index": 8 }, { "q": "VII. A relative can listen without becoming a pain controller", "a": "Pain can be difficult to discuss without mutual judgments. A person fears disbelief; a relative fears missing danger or being unable to sustain care. A household examination may follow: does it really hurt, how much, and why was more possible yesterday? Not every question is harmful, but its purpose deserves clarification. Is assistance needed with description, an activity, or contacting the team? Continuous verification of credibility replaces none of these actions and may obscure the request itself.\n\nA question about appropriate support can be simple: company, travel assistance, recording a question, or quiet? The answer need not remain identical every day. Agreeing to assistance with a journey does not mean consenting to daily interrogation and distribution of details to the entire family. A new concerning observation can be reported with an offer of clinical contact, without independently announcing a diagnosis. Immediate danger calls for urgent assistance appropriate to the situation rather than continued family argument.\n\nHelpers can experience fatigue and limits too. They can describe what they are able to do and seek adult support for their own distress. This does not make another person's pain their fault. Discussing specific availability is better than promising unlimited presence and later interpreting a request as a breach of gratitude. A person in pain need not reassure everybody before being allowed to describe a need and ask a clinical question.\n\nOrdinary life may remain part of relationships. Discussing a film, work, or food does not deny pain. Where circumstances allow, people can agree when to address medical questions and what to leave outside a conversation. Time together need not become symptom surveillance. Closeness can include a person being more than a condition report and a helper more than a monitoring function. This is an ethical orientation for communication, not a promise that relationships will change a pain mechanism.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 13991, "end_utf16": 14052, "sha256_utf8": "63fb8531798ea0c7b7b3ceb537001eb9cf4dfe0e4218da59ae3d84fe00d30501" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 14054, "end_utf16": 16037, "sha256_utf8": "930d7a0db4eceea2a407be80a85b57a09697eaad65c56b70323fb0d43bde69f6" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0039", "p0040", "p0041", "p0042" ], "source_segment_index": 9 }, { "q": "VIII. Emotional support does not cancel the clinical question", "a": "An offer of psychological assistance may be heard as “So you invented it.” Its purpose and relationship with the rest of assessment can be clarified. Discussing fear, helplessness, or relationships need not establish an absence of bodily pain. Equally, this article does not claim that every psychological practice helps every condition. Questions about purpose, a suitable professional, consent, and continuation can be asked without choosing between acknowledging pain and discussing feelings.\n\nA detailed injury account need not be given to everyone offering support. Someone can start with what concerns them now and ask why particular information is necessary. Declining a public story does not mean declining care. Professional contact for considerable distress is available without a prior family diagnosis. This article prescribes no breathing method, meditation, bodily exercise, or mirror technique. A general text cannot replace individual selection of assistance and assessment of its suitability in the current condition.\n\nA personal activity, prayer, or reading may have its own meaning when chosen. It is not a condition for pain relief and need not produce a measurable effect. A practice that irritates, frightens, or is unwanted can be declined while medical care remains a subject of discussion. Continued pain should not be declared proof of insufficient faith, unprocessed feelings, or unwillingness to forgive. Those explanations replace investigation with a moral answer the person is not required to accept.\n\nPain need not acquire an attractive meaning. Someone may later want to reflect on what happened; someone else may remain with tomorrow's practical question. Neither removes the need for accessible care. A promise that changed attitudes will necessarily remove pain may sound hopeful but creates additional blame when it fails. Honest uncertainty and an open clinical question matter more here than finishing the story with a spiritual outcome nobody can demand from another person.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 16042, "end_utf16": 16103, "sha256_utf8": "af4f8d0bbdfe07920ec75d80d709100787e2359a61f96bdc4874ea2f27c432a5" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 16105, "end_utf16": 18119, "sha256_utf8": "18c3f5a58b9e0cd37697471e0a64fee7b4290dc5bda447ee3add59ae2e9660fe" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0044", "p0045", "p0046", "p0047" ], "source_segment_index": 10 }, { "q": "IX. An ancient text has room for questions, not only endurance", "a": "In chapter 6 of Job, the suffering person speaks in reply to another participant. [Job 6](https://ebible.org/engwebp/JOB06.htm). The epigraph concerns limits rather than exemplary compulsory endurance. Theological explanations of suffering are not transferred to an injured reader. It is unnecessary to repeat every word of the character or accept the book's entire worldview to notice a possibility: a difficulty can be spoken without prior agreement from others on the version most comfortable for them.\n\nPsalm 13 in the *World English Bible* begins with a question about abandonment and later changes tone. [Complete psalm](https://ebible.org/engwebp/PSA013.htm). Here the intention is not to prescribe a sequence from complaint to trust but to allow the question to be heard. The ancient ending predicts nothing for a patient. Other traditions may number this psalm 12; the selected English version's number is used so the source can be checked rather than located through memory alone.\n\nThese writings can be historical conversation partners without offering consolation today. That is neither incorrect reading nor evidence of spiritual unreadiness. Respect for another person's faith does not require agreeing to a religious interpretation of one's pain. When offering a quotation, a relative can ask whether it is welcome now. “Not today” can be accepted while concrete assistance continues. Words have contexts; living people can decide whether those words are appropriate in a particular encounter.\n\nThis reading need not set care against wisdom. It maintains different roles: ancient poetry offers language for address, a professional assesses a clinical question, and a relative may assist with a particular task. None must impersonate another. Connecting traditions proves no treatment mechanism or appropriate amount of endurance. Someone remains a recipient of care when no quotation fits and the nearest wish is simply a clear answer about where to turn today.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 18124, "end_utf16": 18186, "sha256_utf8": "5549f52b3ef58dfc0a25903d47572c0cbb322c2772ef52a35f784d0e95316ef7" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 18188, "end_utf16": 20164, "sha256_utf8": "2ccf1c6db2dfe8f8b846423ed4fe2a9f28b23bcdd859eb73c997bcb027d7a191" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0049", "p0050", "p0051", "p0052" ], "source_segment_index": 11 }, { "q": "X. An agreement can be checked without measuring personal strength", "a": "After an appointment, distinguish outcomes: a report was heard, an explanation proposed, a plan made, the next service actually accessible, or a specific difficulty changed. They are connected but different. A plan may contain something useful while access remains unresolved. That can be raised at the next contact. Gratitude need not certify that everything already helps, and misunderstanding need not be hidden to preserve a good relationship with the team.\n\nReview concerns goals and questions agreed with the professional participants and the person. This article sets no required reduction in a pain score and proposes no independent diary-based treatment changes. Someone can report what changed, what proved impossible, and troubling adverse effects. A new question or worsening condition should not wait for a symbolic deadline to test willpower. Urgency relates to the condition and appropriate clinical assistance.\n\nSometimes the nearest result is modest: a recipient becomes clear, information is recovered, contact occurs, or a previously lost question is asked. This does not replace necessary treatment but may be a real part of the route. It need not become a promise that everything will improve from there. Unreceived assistance can be named without self-blame. An honest open question is more useful than a general “done” concealing that a person still has nowhere to turn with a difficulty.\n\nPain need not be life's only content, yet someone need not pretend it is absent. Work, relationships, silence, irritation, curiosity, and different forms of participation may remain. Being heard does not depend on an inspiring account of how these pieces fit. A concrete need and accessible assistance are enough for the next step. Personal strength is not measured here; what is checked is whether an agreement is understood and the intended action actually occurred.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 20169, "end_utf16": 20235, "sha256_utf8": "cd51d2a37074a30d8c8782f4db3df39aa62452d56ea9d60b6cc7b5dbcef4e7c9" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 20237, "end_utf16": 22118, "sha256_utf8": "cd436c94a608e831fb40f97a97481f5552daf6859a301f76e031d0460a125a34" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0054", "p0055", "p0056", "p0057" ], "source_segment_index": 12 }, { "q": "What this means in practice", "a": "Name one medical question in ordinary words: where the concern is felt, how long it has been present, what changed, and which activity is affected. Exact terminology and dates are not compulsory. Do not provoke pain, alter medication to observe it, or delay seeking assistance until the record is perfect. An immediate threat to life requires local emergency care. Report new or worsening changes according to received instructions rather than automatically attributing them to an old diagnosis.\n\nPrepare known information about actual treatment and access: what is taken, which prescriptions survive, what is running out or already interrupted, and the previous contact. Do not choose a substitute, dosage, combination, or discontinuation plan from this article. For a gap in prescribed care, contact a competent local medical participant as soon as possible. Identify missing information honestly. An agreed helper can assist with transfer while preserving your words and separating their observations.\n\nAt the encounter, clarify the next plan: what is proposed, what is unknown, how outcomes are discussed, and whom to contact beforehand with difficulties. Request an understandable explanation or accessible record. Separate a recommendation from the actual opportunity to receive it. After displacement, check that the next participant received necessary information. A sent message is not a completed appointment, and a referral does not establish access. Documents and intimate images need not be published to every potential helper.\n\nAgree one action with a relative: reaching an appointment, recording a question, company, or leaving the condition outside today's conversation. Check their capacity; a child does not manage an adult's medical plan. After contact, check the specific agreement and what occurred. Do not score your endurance, spirituality, or attitude. A question may remain open while competent assistance continues to be sought, without having first to prove gratitude, optimism, or an ability to bear pain silently.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 22123, "end_utf16": 22150, "sha256_utf8": "cac0025fb51e434450b9925cf9a4977d85e79dc5ce2542d61d4355abea0cdd54" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 22152, "end_utf16": 24194, "sha256_utf8": "d18ad8be93c26054c8fb4de8daacc4ec35869b7b99d441e5857f7f2b16419651" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0059", "p0060", "p0061", "p0062" ], "source_segment_index": 13 }, { "q": "Key quotation", "a": "> “How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever?”\n\nPsalm 13:1, *World English Bible*, its two opening questions. [Selected version](https://ebible.org/engwebp/PSA013.htm). 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