What is left to do when treating chronic pain that is compounded with poverty?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Fiona Webster and colleagues who bring attention to the challenges that healthcare providers face in helping patients with chronic pain who struggle with poverty, mental health and addiction. As the authors suggest, it is necessary to situate the problem as a public health issue rather than casting it as a strictly medical crisis.
Full citation:
Webster F, Rice K, Katz J, Bhattacharyya O, Dale C, Upshur R. An ethnography of chronic pain management in primary care: The social organization of physicians’ work in the midst of the opioid crisis. PloS one. 2019 May 1;14(5):e0215148.
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