One controversial operation that has surged in popularity is spinal fusion, in which two or more vertebrae are fused together to alleviate pain blamed on degenerated discs.
They were for a period of time my existence," Goldberg writes, adding that he did little to alleviate his plight except "silently blame my parents... for settling in a wasteland of Irish pogromists".
Mr Eaton is convinced that Vioxx, the now-banned drug prescribed to alleviate arthritic pain, was to blame for her condition and premature death at the age of 74.
If everyone feels guilty about work decisions and worries about how these decisions are viewed, framing these decisions as being made for the family, rather than for themselves, may help alleviate this guilt (and defer blame) by suggesting that women's work decisions are altruistic.
There were philanthropists and political activists who tried to alleviate poverty, alongside others who blamed poverty on the poor.
Faced with this new protocol, clear and consistent information and the avoidance of ambiguous or misleading terminology could alleviate women's anxiety, relieve their burden of blame and allow them informed consent.
Liberals, fond of blaming the system and clinging to the "entitlement programs" that seek to alleviate the stresses of said system, are more likely to forgive the personal missteps that often hold individuals in poverty.
But they don't want to talk about it, because almost anything they could do to alleviate unemployment would still not return it to prerecession levels, so they would still be blamed for any remaining pain.
Democrats tried to place much of the blame for the crisis on the Bush administration, which they said had done little to alleviate the electricity shortage.
He criticized those who protested against the government, and he blamed Egyptians for not contributing enough to a fund that has been established to help alleviate the country's financial crisis.
He'll alleviate those problems".
