by Peggy Baker | Oct 23, 2018 | Clinical, News
Larry Robbins, MD and Alison Alford, MD Introduction: Which Adolescents Should Be On Homebound? It is not uncommon for adolescents with severe headaches to be absent from school for long periods of time. Each child is unique, with multiple variables that include:...
by Peggy Baker | Oct 23, 2018 | Clinical, News, Policy
Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, RNC, AHNBC, DAAPM In the last newsletter, compassion was discussed as the possible ghost of pain management. Intrinsic in that possible relationship is the potential ingredient known as compassion fatigue which is described by Sinclair and...
by Peggy Baker | Jul 12, 2018 | News
by Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, RNC, AHNBC, DAAPM Twenty years ago, when she read my holistic tee shirt with the numbers “2 + 2 = 5” the young store clerk smiled and confided “I wasn’t good at math either.” That tee shirt exemplified the holistic concept: the whole is...
by Peggy Baker | Jul 12, 2018 | News
by Mordecai Potash, MD Barely a week goes by without me seeing at least one, and often multiple, mainstream news articles about the practice of pain management. Just the other day, there were a number of stories about a huge federal multi-state crackdown on what was...
by Peggy Baker | Jul 12, 2018 | News
by Lawrence Robbins, M.D. (Note: this article will be published in full in Practicalpainmanagment.com) INTRODUCTION: The monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) are a valuable addition to our preventives. However, there are...
by Peggy Baker | Apr 3, 2018 | News, President's Notes
by Mordecai Potash, MD In the two years that have passed since the CDC Opioid Guideline was released, many pain management thought leaders have conceptualized this guideline as a pendulum that was to swing patient care from an extreme of opioid permissiveness to a...
