1/🚨The CSI:OPIOIDs team looks at suicides among in persons with pain, including Veterans Suicide is a key concern among Veterans, whose suicide rates rose from 2000 to 2021 That is why our new campaign is with Military Times publication family. csiopioids.org/2024/08/15/csi…

🔊"Narrative Medicine" asks clinicians to read & to write, as a way of humanizing patient care Saul J Weiner cautions that interacting with patients is quite different from interacting with texts In this podcast, we look at the pitfalls of narrative medicine

1/The CSI:OPIOIDs study, seeks interviews with people who lost someone with chronic pain to suicide in context of Rx opioid reduction We are lucky to have a committed & passionate researcher, like April Hoge, MPH Her words exemplify the ethical commitment that drives us all:

Our latest podcast is "Some Pitfalls of Narrative Medicine and How to Avoid Them" Here's why it matters: Narrative Medicine (NM) is taught in countless medical schools across the country as a way to make doctors more human by having them read literature, and write. In our

Our latest podcast explores the pitfalls of “narrative medicine” “Reading literature and reflecting on it is a way to learn about yourself and to reflect, …but it's different from the experience of patient care, where you have a real flesh and blood person in front of you,

Woah. 20-strong cluster hire at UAB Heersink School of Medicine in health equity and addiction/pain. Anyone want to live in Birmingham? Link to health equity posting: uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/19762 Link to addiction/pain posting: uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/20862

Excellent summary of both a presentation and a serious conversation about buprenorphine - when it doesn’t succeed -in pain. Switching back to regular opioid agonist if buprenorphine fails is entirely reasonable if that decision is taken with care and mutual respect