I was sent to radiology for x-rays of my feet, primarily my big toe joints. Over the last decade I've grown increasingly anxious because my back has grown more painful on a good day and often the positions I'm asked to move into hurt. Both my lumbar and cervical spine have problems and I cannot lie flat without severe pain. Yet that is what was ( Read more... )

I keep reading about studies indicating that black people--including children--are not treated properly for pain because doctors and other hospital personnel mistakenly think they don't feel pain in the same way as white people. I have wondered whether this bias is sufficiently addressed in medical school.

Then I read this: The Patient Called Me ' ( Read more... )

I don't understand the strange, legalistic system I got thrown into by asking member services a simple question about pain management, but as a result I got back some legal sounding response about IV meds and no mention of what I really talked about--needing much more time to become numb with local anesthetic ( Read more... )