KATZ: A prescription for dealing with the promise, peril of painkillers
There has long been recognition in the United States that clinicians tend to under-treat serious, and especially chronic pain. This problem tends to become most recognizable when the source of pain is objective, such as cancer, and when concerns about consequences of pain medication use, such as addiction, are most questionable, if not downright silly. When someone is likely to live for only … read more..