Pain

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. Painteaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and logical in its layout,Painis the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go.

Tabitha A. Washington, MD, MS
Associate Pain Fellowship Program Director, Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, NH

Khalilah M. Brown, MD, MPH
Fellow Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

Gilbert J. Fanciullo, MD, MS
Director, Section of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Professor of Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, NH