by Maggie Buckley | Feb 24, 2023 | Communication, Coping Techniques |
By Karla Donovan As I sat in the waiting room of my doctor’s office, I tensed and worried if I would I be heard, understood and believed that I needed help managing my pain. Would I be labeled as a drug seeker? Would the doctor understand that I tried many different...
by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Mar 24, 2015 | Medications, Treatment Options |
A blog written by Charlie P. Reznikoff, MD was shared by Medscape on March 16, 2015 titled 10 Scripts Never to Write. It gave me pause, enough so that I shared it with respected colleagues in the pain management field for their perspectives. It was suggested to me...
by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Dec 9, 2014 | Medications, Treatment Options |
Mid November 2014, I received a Maryland State Health Alert from our Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene, Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD titled, Prescribe Naloxone and Save Lives: An Alert for Maryland Clinicians. The body of the text stated the following: The Maryland...
by Teresa Shaffer | Aug 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Medications, Self-Advocacy, Treatment Options |
It seems like just about every media article talking about pain medications has become a feeding frenzy which reports one side of the story. They take advantage of the uninformed and promote fear with biased and unsubstantiated claims that everyone who is prescribed...
by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Sep 17, 2013 | Medications, Treatment Options |
I was reading a recent commentary in the June 2013 issue of Pain Medicine News by the new president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. In the fairness of disclosure, I must confess that Dr. Lynn R. Webster MD is one my most favorite physicians. I have had the...
