Caveats:
Caveats:
1) Do not go back to the bad old days, which we really haven't left completely, of dismissing patients' reported pain.
2) Do not just treat with different pills and procedures.
3) Do not just do a surgery and discharge a patient and you're done.
Corollaries -
How do you get Medicare and insurance companies to pay for anything else? Narcotics are the cheapest thing going.
How do you get hospitals to hire more staff to do the more labor intensive care and evaluation to treat pain with less or without narcotics?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/09/576584541/hospitals-brace-patients-for-pain-to-reduce-risk-of-opioid-addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/09/576584541/hospitals-brace-patients-for-pain-to-reduce-risk-of-opioid-addiction
1) Do not go back to the bad old days, which we really haven't left completely, of dismissing patients' reported pain.
2) Do not just treat with different pills and procedures.
3) Do not just do a surgery and discharge a patient and you're done.
Corollaries -
How do you get Medicare and insurance companies to pay for anything else? Narcotics are the cheapest thing going.
How do you get hospitals to hire more staff to do the more labor intensive care and evaluation to treat pain with less or without narcotics?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/09/576584541/hospitals-brace-patients-for-pain-to-reduce-risk-of-opioid-addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/09/576584541/hospitals-brace-patients-for-pain-to-reduce-risk-of-opioid-addiction
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