Scientific American Pain Management
I just got an email offering 1/2 off for Scientific American Pain Management, has anyone tried it? It's sounds like an UpToDate for Pain, which is a neat idea. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 24, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: SeniorWrangler Source Type: forums
Portenoy's Presage from 1996
"During the past decade, debate has intensified about the role of long-term opioid therapy in the management of chronic nonmalignant pain. Specialists in pain management have discussed the issues extensively and now generally agree that a selected population of patients with chronic pain can attain sustained analgesia without significant adverse consequences. This perspective, however, is not uniformly accepted by pain specialists and has not been widely disseminated to other disciplines or...
Portenoy's Presage from 1996 (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 23, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: algosdoc Source Type: forums
Curious about pain medicine practice
Hello,
I'm a student interested in pursuing pain and had a few questions to ask, if anyone would be so kind to give their insight of any/all of the below!
-What is the typical practice of an academic pain physician, and how does it differ from a private doc?
-Is it possible to strike a good balance between doing procedures and medical pain management?
-Could anyone elaborate on what medical pain management exactly entails? I've had brief exposure to procedural pain via epidurals/SCS, but...
Curious about pain medicine practice (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 22, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: CECC110 Source Type: forums
Abandoned Practices for Chronic Pain???
A lawyer asked me a couple thought-provoking questions:
Lawyer: "Doctor, is there a professional consensus on the use of opioids for chronic pain?"
Me: "No."
Lawyer: "Doctor, has the field of pain management abandoned using opioids for treating chronic pain?"
Me: "No."
So, it got me thinking. What have we abandoned? How will we ever know that there is a consensus about the appropriate use of a modality based upon evidence?
Everything (chiro, acupuncture, opioids, PT, psych, etc)...
Abandoned Practices for Chronic Pain??? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 20, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: drusso Source Type: forums
Re: Advances in the diagnosis and management of neck pain
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Source: BMJ Comments - November 20, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
for pain pills pushers
When it is the time to recognize that pain medicine is a total failure? What is the contribution of the pain management field in the opioid epidemic? Just have the balls to recognize that is useless . You want facts? What's the percentage of patient post interventional procedures without opioids and productive? Just spit it on "pain doctors"! (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 13, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: 2win Source Type: forums
EM Pain Fellowship vs CC? Kind of want out of EM. Any advice?
Hey guys,
I'm reaching out for a little help and advice. I'm in a pretty rough place personally/emotionally and am not sure that I can do 20-30 years of EM.
A little about me:
I'm a pgy2 at a very good 3 year EM program. I had great board scores (245+ step 1/2), grades (3.6 H/HP/P), and was top 1/4 of my class. I'm a US MD from the standard state school. My medical school interests included orthopedics and pain management. I initially felt emergency medicine was a great crossroads field...
EM Pain Fellowship vs CC? Kind of want out of EM. Any advice? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: D McF Source Type: forums
Re: Advances in the diagnosis and management of neck pain
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Source: BMJ Comments - October 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
CDC guidelines
I use the CDC guidelines as a scape goat whenever patients want higher doses of narcotics...and it usually helps limiting escalating doses (even tho pts aren't happy).
However, I've had some providers refer to me after the patients fail to get better even after they r on 100mmeq/day (MSIR 30mg TID) . They suggest that bc im pain management I can prescribe higher doses and that the guidelines were primarily for pcps.
Any thoughts? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - October 26, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: painfree23 Source Type: forums
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Source: The Student Room - September 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Democracy Tags: Medicine Source Type: forums
pm & r vs. gas -- pain management
From previous threads I have learned that a pain fellowship in gas or pm&r is a possibility for pm&r grads.
What are the differences in gas vs. pm&r fellowship training? What is the scope(procedures, day to day work,etc.)of the practice of a pm&r pain specialist vs. a gas pain specialist?
And finally, how are they similar or different viz a viz job opportunities, salaries.
Thanks in advance. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: ys Source Type: forums
Oregon Pain Management health commission
Oregon Health Authority : Pain Management Commission Members : Oregon Pain Management Commission : State of Oregon
Now I can see how Oregon arrived at its whacky conclusions consisting of moo shoo medical management for "pain".
The board literally consists of mostly quacks from Chiros to "natural healers" to social workers.
Never seen a bigger clown show than this crew making "decisions".
There is literally one pain...
Oregon Pain Management health commission (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 26, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrCommonSense Source Type: forums
Seeking advice about switching from anesthesiology to pain management
Anyone gone from the practice of general anesthesiology to pain management recently? Is it worth switching now? It was much better time to switch in the early 1990's because of reimbursement.
My jobs have been mainly anesthesiology, but I also have provided both acute and chronic pain management services.
An anesthesia management company is taking over our hospital soon, and this may be an opportunity to change directions into a job with no call.
Thank you in advance for your responses. I...
Seeking advice about switching from anesthesiology to pain management (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Shouldawouldacouldas Source Type: forums
Is the grass greener in pain management than general anesthesiology?
Anyone gone from the practice of general anesthesiology to pain management? Is it worth switching now?
My jobs have been mainly anesthesiology, but I also have provided both acute and chronic pain management services.
An anesthesia management company is taking over our hospital soon, and this may be an opportunity to change directions.
Thank you in advance for your responses. I will also post this same question in the anesthesiology forum. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 19, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Shouldawouldacouldas Source Type: forums
pain management opening, Cincinnati
Physician in the Cincinnati area looking to bring in a second pain physician to join him.
Full post at Pain Management Job Ohio Cincinnati (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 16, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: painj Source Type: forums
