According to a study published in the journal Pain Medicine as reported in the NYT, approximately 0.1 percent of pain physicians ever face punishment or sanction for prescribing narcotics. To boot, just 3% of these actually specialized in pain control. What to conclude from this? According to Myra Christopher, president... (read the rest)
posted September 23, 2008
Yesterday's NYT Mag included a very interesting piece surveying research into if, when and how fetuses and babies experience pain: But [Kanwaljeet] Anand was not through with making observations. As NICU technology improved, the preterm infants he cared for grew younger and younger — with gestational ages of 24 weeks,... (read the rest)
posted February 11, 2008
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