A few milligrams perhaps and you are bound to go ahead with the thirst of a school bully wishing hard to exhibit his strength each moment. Girls would flock around and men would gesture to clear from you vicinities. That’s why the advice is always to buy Cialis, to buy it and taste the true flavor of life.
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Would You Like 1-Stop Shopping For All Your Medical Care?

July 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Do you need a personal assitant just to coordinate your health care visits?  Does your appointment book look like this?

Monday:  Pain Medicine Doctor
Tuesday:  Physical therapy
Wednesday:  Psychiatric Pain Management
Thursday:  Physical therapy
Friday:  Massage therapy, acupuncture and yoga

Patients with Medicare typically see 7 physicians in 4 different practices.  Time spent?  Miles traveled?  Too much!!

The American Medical Association’s solution?  Have care organized around conditions, so it can be coordinated.  Rather than seeing many individual health care providers, complementary specialists would work together to care for patients with complex conditions.

So, for example, a person with chronic pain would have access to a coordinated team.  A pain medicine physician, psychiatrist, physical therapist, acupuncturist, massage therapist, etc., would all work together – perhaps even out of the same office.  Great for patients to have coordinated care, easier scheduling, and 1-stop shopping.  Great for health care providers to have colleagues with whom they know how to work, and communication about their patients made easy.

What the AMA would like to study next is if this model results in better care – are medical outcomes better?

The idea of coordinated care is not new, but the way our country’s medical system is currently organized, it’s difficult to both organize and fund.  Many comprehensive pain management centers have sprouted up, only to wilt.  However, previous studies of pain care have shown that comprehensive care results in better outcomes.

I personally often work as part of an informal pain management team.  I know my colleagues well … how they work, exactly what they do.  We can easily share suggestions, concerns and new ideas about patients’ care.  So the AMA’s suggestion is a very worthwhile idea.  I hope there’s a way to have it work.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • Sherril // Jul 27, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Now here’s a site I can relax to: http://www.annevis.com/AnneVis/html/healing.htm!

  • kimberly // Jul 29, 2007 at 1:54 am

    Hi, My name is kimberly and Im 40, I have 1 daughter and been married for 17 years to a wonderfull husband. I received this e-mail on sat, july 27, 07, where has this imformation been? ohg, I have been trying to help myself for 5 long agganizing years with a very severe condition that has made me scared beyond beleif.
    I have seen so many doctors and no offense to the good ones, they seem to not want to help. for the first time in 5 years I showed how upset i have been. I was told to shut up because I was crying and very frustrated. How can anyone tell me to shut up. looking at my films, history, tests, and the suffering im in, right in front of them, and turn a blind eye and send me out with a script or to go some where else to get rid of me. I have been trying to help myself and do everything i can on my own to find the team i so despritly need.
    Iv been told several times i have rsd-crps, on top of spinal injuries. I have devastating and severe spine pain, severe burning from the top of head to my feet, my body temp cannot regulate its self. I have found therapy, injections, epidorals, antidepressants, bio-feed back, facet injections, massages, chriopratic, etc. im not just sitting around doing nothing. just recently i was told that this is a global situation and needed invasive treatment that would go through out the whole body. so true. the wonderful doctor commended me on everything I listed that I did, and still trying to be sane and have the will to live. He also was the first dr.to ask me what I looked like before 5 years ago.
    I feel like a lab rat and im going around a vicious circle thats never ending. Im very scared out of my mind and so is my family. Im not only scared for my self, Im exstreamly scared for my family and how tired we all are and how hard of a fight that we all have. Can someone give us some suggestions for help or direction?
    MANY THANKS TO ALL FOR SENDING THIS IMFORMATION TO ME, THIS GIVES ME SOME HOPE TO SURVIVE AS WELL AS MY FAMILY BECAUSE ALL YOU DO! I WAS TOLD BY A VERY AWSOME WOMEN A MIRACLE WOULD HAPPEN AND I THINK THIS IS MY MIRIACLE.
    AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR TIME AND IMFORMATION. KIMBERLY, from NJ.
    PS. I DONT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM WITH REGARDS TO DRS, THERE NOT ALL LIKE WHAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN THE PAST 5 YEARS,I DO HAVE 3 MOST AWSOME,PROFFESSIONAL DRS,WHO KNOW ME 100% AND I ADMIRE THEM BIG TIME!

  • HtCwP // Jul 29, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Kimberly, thanks for your story. It sounds like it’s been a long, difficult road for you, but that you now are developing a team which is helpful to you.
    Any other suggestions from readers?

  • KIMBERLY // Jul 31, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Yes, it has been a very long, painful road for myself and my family. Im really trying to keep hanging in there. I was just put on a year waiting list for the newest procedure. To me, another year is to long but I do know I will continue to keep fighting and find whatever I can to make it through till then. I can only hope for the best, nothing is garenteed.

    Thank-you for reading my story it feels good for someone to acknowledge what is happening to myself and my feelings and this most difficult condition and severe pain. I also know theres alot of others who are suffering emensely as well as I. Im really hoping to get well to some degree so I can go around and help others, and educate them so they dont feel alone as we do, and they may be able to cut out all the red tape that we were unable, or not informed properly, so they may not have to suffer as long as most of us. Thank-you for responding to my story and your encouragement. we greatly appricate that.

    People in this kind of medical nightmare need as much feedback and imformation, and positive thoughts as much as possible. Thank-you to your foundation and all your reaserch to help patients like me. Please keep us imformed with all new research and other helpfull imformation as much as possible. Maybe one day I will be able to help others as well. Be safe and well! I will tell others about about you! Sincerly, Kimberly, nj.

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