Healthcare providers often encounter aberrant behaviors from patients who are prescribed controlled substances. Pain practitioner Jeremy Adler, MS, PA-C, outlines how forming a differential diagnosis of these, drawing on a consistent plan of action, and communicating with patients can contribute to
The cost of healthcare of course is a concern. The insurance companies are in the business of providing insurance and healthcare professionals and patients are seeking...
The argument that we need to educate providers more is an argument that could always be made: Who could not benefit from more education. The question is, are the problems...
Certainly the idea of making an opioid safer is very desirable, and the current approach has been to address certain components of the way that these drugs are abused. Most of the...