Harry J. Gould, III MD, PhD When I was reminded this time that the deadline for articles for the fall edition of the newsletter was approaching, I realized that my term as President of the Southern Pain Society is rapidly coming to its end. Events that mark milestones in a career, tend to prompt one […]
Lawrence Robbins, MD Evolutionary Medicine is a growing, vital, fascinating and relevant area. I use it daily in my practice, to explain to patients (such as the evolutionary reason for anxiety, why we have so much neck and back pain, why we suffer pain and mortality with childbirth etc…) it should be taught in our […]
Harry J. Gould, III MD, PhD During the past 30 years, we have observed the prescribing habits of physicians swing from a position of avoidance of opioid medications in the late 80’s and early 90’s to a position of liberal and virtually indiscriminate prescribing of opioids in the first decade of this century. This trend […]
Harry J. Gould, III MD, PhD It has been more years than I care to admit since I graduated from medical school. As most of us have realized, with time, advances are made, with experience, skills are refined and as practitioners, we adapt to change and challenge and improve in our ability to care for patients. An unfortunate corollary to the essential fine-tuning of the evolving practitioner, especially in specialty […]
Lawrence Robbins, MD and Hanah Alley, MD (originally published in Medicine Connections, 2021 vol.1, issue 2: a journal of the World Headache Society) Abstract Introduction: This was a small open label study designed to determine efficacy of helminth egg therapy in refractory chronic migraine (RCM) patients. It is probable that the immune system is involved […]
Olivia Lee and Lawrence Robbins, MD Introduction to Bipolar Disorder The broadening concept of the bipolar spectrum has evolved over the years. We no longer view bipolar primarily as characterized by mania. Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric illness that is broadly categorized in the DSM-V into several subtypes – bipolar I and bipolar II […]
Harry J. Gould, III MD, PhD
Once again, it is time to begin a brand new year. Since I stepped into the role of president of the Southern Pain Society, we as a society have experienced moments of promise with the release and early encouraging responses to vaccines to thwart the COVID-19 pandemic. These advances fostered the hope of resuming in person meetings, but the resurgence of the pandemic due to the delta variant dictated
With the FDA’s blessing in mid-December on the administration of vaccines for COVID-19 and subsequent indications of downward trends in the rate of infections, hospitalizations and deaths associated with the virus came a feeling that the worst of the pandemic was past and we were on a return path to recover normalcy…
Approximately 9.6% of Americans have a personality disorder.1,2 These are common conditions, and all medical professionals encounter patients with such disorders in their practice. Early identification of this group of patients is ideal. In the following we discuss how patients with these psychiatric conditions may present to an outpatient pain clinic…
Harry J. Gould, III, MD, PhD On June 26, 2021, Johnson & Johnson confirmed that in 2020, as part of a $230M settlement with the State of New York, they discontinued promotion and distribution of opioid products in the State of New York. The settlement was made in response to efforts to mitigate the unprecedented […]