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People living with chronic pain face multiple difficult decisions leading to high level of decisional conflict [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision. We observed that 97% of respondents faced at least one difficult decision across their care pathways. We reported national prevalence of decisional conflict.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! and supplements you are taking including the doses and what you take them for- even better, bring the bottles!