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Originally Posted by spine95
surgeons are not the best choice for managing post op pain. They really don't want that job anyhow as their waiting rooms tend to be filled with pre-op and immediately post op patients and don't have the time or room for the post op patients who will be dealing with ongoing issues while they heal.
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I don't disagree with any of that, but doesn't it seem that dealing with post-op pain
should be the responsibility of the guy cutting (
causing the surgical pain), and part of the whole surgical package? It's not some PN doctor who's cutting into the patient -
it's the surgeon. Since most PM docs come from anethesiology anyway, maybe it should be part of the
anesthesiologist's purview(?)
Asking a PM doctor to deal with pain caused by another seems like cleaning up someone else's mess. And unfortunately, when surgery doesn't work as expected, it winds up that way anyhow.
I don't know... just rambling a bit.
Doc