Critical thinking in pain management [PODCAST]

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On this episode, we welcome particular visitor Ronald A. Zent, a household doctor, to debate the continuing opioid disaster. With a fourfold improve in opioid prescriptions and overdose deaths from 1999-2010, Ronald shares his insights on how the medical group has been duped and the function of huge pharmaceutical corporations in influencing the prescription of harmful and addictive drugs.

Ronald additionally shares his views on ache administration and encourages prescribers to suppose critically about their actions and contemplate the potential penalties for his or her sufferers. He encourages a extra sturdy dialogue on ache generally and emphasizes the significance of avoiding outpatient long-acting opioids and permitting fentanyl solely in a hospital setting, if in any respect.

Be a part of us for a thought-provoking dialogue on the opioid disaster and the function of well being care professionals in decreasing the variety of useless deaths from prescription overdoses.

Ronald A. Zent is a household doctor.

He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, “How were we duped and what can we do about the opioid overdose crisis?”

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