In fairness, I have to say that I was offered a referral to Hopkins' Pain Management Dept., which routinely sees their RSD cases, in the event that I was not already under the treatment of an anesthesiologist for palliative care.

I declined because I already have a pain specialist who's an assoc. prof. of anesthesiology at U.S.C. and of whom I think the world.

That just wasn't the reason I was knocking on their door.