PainRx

Hey friends 👋🏻 You and I are probably thinking the same thing. What exactly is the patient withdrawing from? Do I need to start thinking about buprenorphine? In case you haven’t seen my carousel, I was once approached by an attending because they weren’t too sure what the patient was withdrawing from. All I knew at the time was this: SP! The patient said they were taking “pain meds” and are now withdrawing. The urine drug screen was negative for opioids but positive for benzos. The...

Hey friends 👋🏻 I’m being a bit selfish in this week’s newsletter because I want to do a quick reflection on some non clinical skills that I find helpful in navigating my job. And if I were to do another reflection later this year, I want to see if I would still say something similar, or if I would have changed my mind in some aspects. To give you an idea of the things I need to achieve in my job, here are a few tasks I usually do: Review the chart and pick out pertinent context from the...

Hey friends 👋🏻 As I was preparing for the second episode of the Opioid Conversion Book Club Series over the last two weeks, I came across a very interesting piece from Fast Fact called: Opioid Orders: Good and Bad Examples 😬 That’s a pretty pointy title at first glance. Good and bad. So there’s going to be opinion involved. Judging something as good or bad has a lot to do with someone’s taste. And someone’s caviar can be someone else’s durian. So for this week, how about we look at some...