How Times Have Changed by Steven Mussey MD
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How Times Have Changed by Steven Mussey MD
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
As an interventional pain physician, I see Patient’s whose lives are destroyed by unremitting pain, usually after surgery. All chronic pain started by an acute pain that was inadequely or inappropriately managed.
When I was a resident, having just received my BNDD (now called DEA) number, I was told by my attebdinds that you should be stingy with opioids. These cause addiction, and other bad things. Move ahead 25 years, evil doctors were denying patients narcotics. These drugs were second only to mother’s milk in doing good things. Doctors were sued for not giving high enough doses of narcotics. Others lost their licenses and even tried in criminal court for being cautious in prescribing opioids. Move to today and fashion has returned to 36 years ago regarding narcotics.
When will the regulators realize they are part of the problem? That is a rhetoratorical question we all know NEVER!