QUESTION 11 OF 25

Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?

This answer is simple if you don't plan on managing chronic pain, but if you do, your interviewer will want to know to what extent. The opioid crisis makes for bad press from overdoses, and institutions and groups want to steer clear of the whole controversy--not to mention scrutiny from the DEA and your state board. Before your interview, you need to know that you are being asked this to see if you're overstepping into controversial practices.

"As a physician involved in cardiovascular medicine, the only pain I deal with is acute pain of cardiac origin. In such an acute setting, I plan on prescribing according to my patient's need and within a hospital environment, but it is the cause of the pain that is threatening the patient, not the pain itself. Therefore, I simply won't be treating chronic pain, which should be managed by a rheumatologist, physiatrist, anesthesiologist, or other pain management specialist."

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Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?

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