Internal Medicine Physician Mock Interview
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Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?
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Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
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 prepare to be asked this and be cautious about overstepping into controversial practices.
Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
"As a primary care doctor in Internal Medicine, 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 and implementing safeguards such as drug screens. With chronic pain, I feel it best to refer the patient to a rheumatologist, physiatrist, anesthesiologist, or other pain management specialist."
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