“IT CAN’T HURT THAT MUCH…”

After my 13 years of medical training, early in the early 1990’s I was often asked by physician colleagues, “I don’t get it, what exactly is a ‘pain doctor’?”   Followed by, “why would you want to specialize in that!?”    Those questions used to confound me.  But indeed, “pain management” was a new specialty. At that…