This week’s podcast

Why bother prescribing…

Perusing the paper this morning brings me to a New York Times article: Good news: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say. In short, my response is, I am not surprised since I spoke about this when I started the blog. This one is likely to be a tad preachy so hang …

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This is why we can’t have nice things…

So, in Utah HB 399 was introduced this session to ban conversion therapy in Utah.  Similar legislation has gained some momentum across the country and is currently the law in 13 states as well as in some municipalities where the state does not have those protections in place. The bill was introduced by Rep. Craig …

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Please don’t diagnose addiction…

Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …

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