Anthony H. Guarino, M.D., Dir. of Pain Mgmt. Barnes Jewish West County Hospital 
Read one expert’s explanation about why there has been an 88% increase in pain-killers between 1997-2005, the good and bad, posted on Google News in Comment following an Associated Press analysis of the increase in pain medication use. Comment posted: August 21, 2007
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In his book, How Doctors Think, author Jerome Groopman, M.D., says that he would not go to a doctor if he thought that the doctor didn’t like him. (See Books for summary)
This man is a distinguised researcher, clinician and professor, so he is about as numbers-savvy as it gets. Still, he places a lot of emphasis […]

As we learned when we were small, it’s better to get it over with.
When you have something to tell the doctor which makes your face red just thinking about it, what can you do?
Write it down. Hand it to the doctor and say, “This explains the problem. It’s hard for me to talk about without […]

Patients should not be left alone in the hospital even when they are not in immediate danger. A steady stream of research on errors in hospitals suggests that friends and families must play a more active role in the patient’s monitoring, care and do their own charting of who has done what, why and when.
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