Early Cancer Pain Management
“My dad died within six months of his diagnosis,” says Carrie Johnson, MD, now an anesthesiologist and cancer pain management specialist. “And it shaped what…
Waging a War on Pain
Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier III, MD, can see the silver lining in a black cloud. The program director for the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative…
Sanjay Gupta, MD
A 29-year-old medical resident on a skiing excursion is trapped between rocks and a shelf of ice for more than an hour, her head submerged…
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Ketamine Therapy
Imagine being so sensitive to stimuli that your body’s pain response reacts to a simple touch the same way it would to being hit by…
Managing Cancer Pain
“I don’t give up,” says Brian Bruel, MD, assistant professor of pain medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and president-elect of…
Pediatric Pain Management
Babies can seem like a different species. They have specific and sometimes urgent needs but a limited ability to articulate them. Parents want to understand…
Ten Techniques to Help Improve the Relationship With Your Doctor
Patients who have good relationships with their physicians tend to have better outcomes. While this won’t change a patient’s outcome drastically, a recent study shows that it…
Chronic Pelvic Pain
Robert Echenberg, MD, FACOG, an expert in chronic pelvic pain (CPP), wants us — all of us — to feel comfortable talking about a topic that’s often…
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Mark Wallace
When Mark Wallace, MD, first greets a new patient, he asks two questions: Not only does Dr. Wallace want to understand someone’s pain, he wants…