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 an Infectious Disease specialist, I know that I have a responsibility to believe my patient's report of pain. In an acute setting, I plan on prescribing according to my patients need, implementing safeguards and following precautions. With chronic pain, I feel it best to refer the patient to a rheumatologist, physiatrist, anesthesiologist, or other pain management specialist, because seldom is chronic pain a residual condition after an infection has been adequately treated."

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Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?

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