CDC guideline is silent regarding what would qualify a practitioner to call themselves a “pain specialist.”

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Can I Call Myself a “Pain Specialist?” https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/resources/ethics/can-call-myself-pain-specialist Who defines the role of pain specialists? Do you qualify as one, and do the courts agree? Inside the legal requirements. In April 2019, in the case of US v. Littleford, a Colorado physician was sentenced to 87 months in prison for overprescribing opioids that ultimately resulted […]

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Health insurers – profits and premiums growing dramatically…while pts are denied appropriate care more and more ?

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Insurers Win and Patients Lose… Again While insurers grow more powerful, patients and doctors are losing control of medicine, says Kevin Campbell, MD https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/campbells-scoop/81823 The country’s biggest health insurers earned more than $11 billion in profit in Q2 this year, and Kevin Campbell, MD, has had enough of the industry continuing to grow without a […]

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