First of all thanks for doing this. It is refreshing. If evidence based medicine was a common framing in the 90s, would pain management happen differently? Are doctors still susceptible to opaque methodology and results from clinical trials?
I wound up getting myself into quite a predicament with pain management back then - we’re talking the mid nineties. Thank God for 12 years of being drug and alcohol free…. It’s good to be kind to yourself. Best Regards!!
As a firm, dogmatic, orthodox, lifelong, uncompromising Anti-Stoic, I am absolutely in favor of treating pain by all safe means possible. Not through addictive opioids, of course, but by anything safe...I never would have made it as a Flagellant...
Thanks for sharing your insight. Sadly we rely on Big Pharma for vaccines and treatments for COVID. Although I am pro-vaccine I can see why some people are skeptical. Company's like Purdue undermine public confidence in medicine. Hopefully we will all learn to rely on science going forward, not marketing. I am hopeful, but maybe I have to be. I am married to a scientist!
I was glad to see the shoutout to Bertie in your book Ladyparts (which I totally recommend to anyone reading this comment). Bertie also correctly diagnosed something for me that a specialist in that field had completely missed...
After growing up in a communist country where you learn how to stoically put up with pain (not saying this is the solution either), coming to America I was shocked to see how overly medicated people are. This story sheds some light on the scary behind-the-scenes reasons why this is the case. Excellent piece Dr. Bregman!
Does the documentary discuss Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others? Seemed key in that era to emphasizing how difficult it is to know about pain in others, even before there might have been a medical intervention to sell.
First of all thanks for doing this. It is refreshing. If evidence based medicine was a common framing in the 90s, would pain management happen differently? Are doctors still susceptible to opaque methodology and results from clinical trials?
I wound up getting myself into quite a predicament with pain management back then - we’re talking the mid nineties. Thank God for 12 years of being drug and alcohol free…. It’s good to be kind to yourself. Best Regards!!
Interesting, Bertie, I'll have to watch it... Love the blog posts, keep em coming.
As a firm, dogmatic, orthodox, lifelong, uncompromising Anti-Stoic, I am absolutely in favor of treating pain by all safe means possible. Not through addictive opioids, of course, but by anything safe...I never would have made it as a Flagellant...
Thanks for sharing your insight. Sadly we rely on Big Pharma for vaccines and treatments for COVID. Although I am pro-vaccine I can see why some people are skeptical. Company's like Purdue undermine public confidence in medicine. Hopefully we will all learn to rely on science going forward, not marketing. I am hopeful, but maybe I have to be. I am married to a scientist!
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Another great one, Bertie!
I was glad to see the shoutout to Bertie in your book Ladyparts (which I totally recommend to anyone reading this comment). Bertie also correctly diagnosed something for me that a specialist in that field had completely missed...
After growing up in a communist country where you learn how to stoically put up with pain (not saying this is the solution either), coming to America I was shocked to see how overly medicated people are. This story sheds some light on the scary behind-the-scenes reasons why this is the case. Excellent piece Dr. Bregman!
Does the documentary discuss Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others? Seemed key in that era to emphasizing how difficult it is to know about pain in others, even before there might have been a medical intervention to sell.
So what is your conclusion regarding your questions surrounding Adderall?