Pediatrician Mock Interview
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Question 21 of 25
Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?
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Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
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.
Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"As a primary care doctor, 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 such as drug screens. With chronic pain, although I won't be seeing many pediatric patients as such, if I do, I feel it best to refer the patient to a rheumatologist, physiatrist, anesthesiologist, or other pain management specialist."
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