As you may or may not know, I now work in a pain management clinic. We manage chronic pain, both with interventional injections and with medications. I'm pretty much on the medication side. Because it's a specialty clinic, we have more time to spend with our patients than I did as a family doctor. I find this a bit disheartening for the state ( Read more... )

A few years ago, my best friend fell. She tripped coming in to her house and hit her head on a concrete step. Hard. Luckily, it didn't kill her, but she did get a pretty good concussion. It was a hard enough hit that when she went into the house to get some ice, she passed out. She called 911 and was seen at the hospital. Unfortunately, ( Read more... )