Having a good relationship with our doctors is vital to making sure that we get quality care. Being able to communicate with our doctors is a vital part of the doctor/patient relationship.

And for chronic pain patients, this doctor/patient relationship can be the difference between getting proper treatment and getting no treatment.... and it's not just the relationship with out pain management doctors, but with our primary care doctors, our other specialists, etc... because these doctors often communicate with our PM docs, or these other doctors are the ones responsible for giving us the referral to see a PM doc.

Our lives are in their hands. Our quality of life is in their hands.

So I thought I would start a thread where we can all talk about how to make the doctor/patient relationship better, how to better communicate our needs to our doctors.


So does anyone wish to share experiences, tips, suggestions, etc....