Mac Whitesides Mmsc

Painful: One Doctor's Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic and Big Pharma

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781098366049
• ISBN-10: 1098366042
• Artikelnr.: 62158762

Autorenporträt

I have been Oral & Maxillofacial surgeon for 25 years. I have studied the opioid epidemic and its effects on the public and the healthcare profession. I share my knowledge of this contemporary topic in continuing education lectures to my professional colleagues in the healthcare profession. In researching the opioid epidemic I realized there was a story to be told. My book, Painful: One doctor's fight against the Opioid Epidemic and Big Pharma, examines the opioid epidemic from the view point of a struggling anesthesiologist who wants to help people in chronic pain without condemning them to a life-long addiction to opioids. He is faced with disturbing ethical challenges as he wrestles with his own demons and the wisdom behind with the deadly effects of powerful, addictive opioids in the alleviation of pain in his patients. When he brings these issues to his mentor, his life is placed in jeopardy and he must re-invent himself to implicate the transgressors while successfully disappearing.