Professor at the University of Washington
There are big reasons that Americans consume far more of these addictive painkillers than people do elsewhere. The epidemic of opioid abuse will surely go down in history as one of the greatest …
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See my blog post for the Society for Participatory Medicine at https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/2018/01/mark-sullivan-who-gets-to-define-the-clinical-problem.html …
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The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care by Mark D Sullivan, an excellent book about the nature of patient-centered care, is not light reading, but is both informative and provocative. It is …
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A summary of our randomized trial of opioid taper support has been posted on the Body In Mind blog edited by Lorimer Moseley. This trial shows that it is NOT necessary to balance opioid safety …
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The New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst Patient Engagement Blog has published my article, "How Chronic Pain Treatment Falls Short of Patient-Centered Care." It argues that objective and …
There is a new story in The Atlantic, "How Untreated Depression Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic" by Olga Khazan, May 15, 2017. She quotes me and other experts about how patients with depression and …
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