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Within hours after the op- eration, Mrs. Yaari was sitting in a chair, reading a magazine, pain-free. The difference: a pa- tient-controlled analgesic pump (PCAP) connected to her vein, which injects tiny amounts of (in her case) morphine, at the touch of her finger. "Pain and its effect on recovery are growing em- phases in health care worldwide," says Gila Rosen, a regis- tered nurse and acute pain service coordinator at the He- brew University-Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. "Many doctors in Israel and abroad believe that suppress- ing pain not only improves pa- tient well-being, but actually speeds recovery." The post of acute pain service coordinator is new to both Is- rael and Hadassah, and is a one-day-a-week job, so far. Dur- ing the remaining days, Ms. Rosen works in the recovery room, as she has since 1971. "It was my recovery room work that led to my interest in post-operative pain," says Ms. Rosen. 'To me, minimizing pain is integral to my job." When Hadassah's anesthesiology de- partment requested a nurse one day a week to work with the Medical Center's four PCAPs, Ms. Rosen immediately applied. Now, as Israel's sole acute pain service coordinator, she demonstrates to doctors and nurses from Hadassah and all over the country the use of the intravenous PCAPs — how to change sy- ringes, how to set a basal rate of small renewable doses of pain killers, and how to fix delay times and the maximum amounts that can be given in an hour. She and they have seen that once the patient has the means of controlling pain in his own hands, he seems to need far less of the pain- killing medication. ❑ Israeli Population Shows Increase Jerusalem (JTA) — On the eve of its 46th birthday, Israel has roughly 5,350,000 inhabitants, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The total represents an in- crease of 115,000, or 2.2 per- cent over the year before. The population statistics, which are released annually when Israel celebrates In- dependence Day, indicate that two-thirds of this year's increase was due to births rather than immigration. This year's Independence Day celebration fell on Thursday, a day after the country marked its Memorial Day commemora- tions for those who died in Israeli wars. Israelis are dispersed over some 1,170 towns, villages and small settlements, ac- cording to the Bureau of Statistics, and 17 Israeli cities now have populations in excess of 100,000, as corn- pared with only 11 a year ago. During the past year, the bureau reported, some 71,000 . immigrants came to Israel, the vast majority coming from the former Soviet Union. Immigration was down by 3,500 from the previous year. The drop was explain- ed as being due to a greater stability than in the past in centers of Jewish population around the world.