Can You Feel My Pain?

By Lynn Webster, M.D. | January 28, 2017 |

  Are patients qualified to determine whether or not opioids help in treating their pain? Pain Medicine Advance Access published a study that was conducted at the Back and Pain Center, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, MI. The Back and Pain Center is an outpatient tertiary care pain clinic where patients are evaluated for…

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The Painful Truth About Suicide

By Lynn Webster, M.D. | June 30, 2016 |

Suicide Rates Have Reached a 30-year High Suicide rates have reached a 30-year high, according to the New York Times. “This is part of the larger emerging pattern of evidence of the links between poverty, hopelessness and health,” according to Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard University. It’s true that poverty,…

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