Ukens engelske artikkel: Should Psychiatrists Manage Pain? (Medscape.com)

Hi. My name is Dr. Charles Argoff, Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and Director of the Comprehensive Pain Center at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York. I’d like to talk today about the role of behavioral care, specifically the role of a psychiatrist, in managing chronic pain.

I’ve been doing pain management (I don’t want to date myself) for over 20 years. It was an interest of mine when I was doing my neurology residency and thereafter, I focused my professional activities on this area.

However, what has amazed me is how almost every person I’ve seen with chronic pain including chronic headache problems, really could have benefitted from the intervention of a behavioral person, specifically a psychiatrist, and how often today it is virtually impossible to get someone with a psychiatric background to actually participate in the care of somebody who has chronic pain.

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