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Only a few medical school lectures from a decade ago stand out in my mind, but one in particular haunts me. In 2008, during my internal medicine clerkship, a pain specialist lectured on the utility of prescription opioids for the treatment of chronic, nonmalignant pain. New to medicine, I was wary of the risks that taking this lecturer ’s approach entailed, particularly as many of the “old-school” surgeons with whom I had already rotated prescribed opioids so conservatively. The lecturer that day not only argued against such conservative practice, but he asserted that physicians’ fear of prescribing was causing patients ne edless suffering.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Book forum Source Type: research