Dr. Paul Brand's work with leprosy patients in India and the U.S. has convinced him that pain truly is one of God's greatest gifts to us. The Gift of Pain sheds light on the value of pain that becomes clearest in its absence. In this inspirational story of his fifty-year career as a healer, Dr. Brand shares his work in a colony of leper patients: a world where people literally feel no pain and reap horrifying consequences.