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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

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When a complete history and physical examination cannot identify a specific source of fever greater than 39 centigrade or 102.2 And Van den Bruel in BMJ 2011 found procalcitonin to have better specificity than white blood cell count. Can they follow up with their primary care doctor or at your facility within 24 to 48 hours?