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Aristus

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51. I don't tell my patients anything in a smug manner.

Sat Oct 7, 2017, 09:24 PM

Oct 2017

And I don't know any medical providers who say "Just suffer until you die". And neither do you. Real life is not TV, or wherever you got the 'just suffer until you die' thing.

Just as chronic pain is almost always multifactorial in etiology, the treatment is often multipolar. Oral, intramuscular or IV medications, physical therapy, orthopedic monitoring, therapeutic massage, physiatry, etc.

Not every patient wants to make the effort to do those things. Most just want to pop a pill and be done with it. That's an unrealistic, and certainly un-pragmatic approach to the treatment of chronic pain.

We are medical providers. We are charged with stemming and reversing the effects of an epidemic. I wonder what names people would call us if we did nothing during just such an epidemic...

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