There is a host of new, ever changing, and conflicting guidelines from a multitude of regulators and academic societies. This evolving and uncertain landscape is making the life of a practicing pain physician in the midst of today’s nationwide opiate epidemic…painful.
Here are 10 tips to help you avoid Medical Board discipline when prescribing opiates:1
1. Don’t Prescribe Opiates Unless…
- The patient has exhausted all reasonable alternatives
- There is medical indication
- Recently documented objective evidence of/consistent with patient’s pain complaints
- You have ...
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