After you hatch a unique and audacious idea, nourish it -- especially at first. Be choosy and share it only with humans who genuinely delight in your creativity and ingenuity. Throngs of support are a lagging, not leading, indicator of success.

Looks like this docket is open for 4 more days leading up to FDA committee meeting. PROP and Tauben are still wanting for their label changes, bc the damage they’ve done is apparently not enough for them. Shame on them. Comment please regulations.gov/document/FDA-2…

“It’s the same way people react when they see a mass shooting — we need to do something,” said Singer. “If you could institute a miserable, prison-like existence for 300 million Americans, then yes, that would cut down on the drug trade.” CatoHealth semafor.com/article/04/14/…

“All stages occur in quick succession: you deny your illness, pushing yourself to your absolute limit, then you feel anger when you struggle to keep up or perform simple tasks…#depression, until finally, you make it to acceptance again.” buff.ly/43x5mrr #chronicillness

Will the evidence ever shake lawmakers/policymakers loose of the false narrative driving current policy? CatoHealth cato.org/blog/more-evid… via Cato Institute

When I see articles like this now I don’t believe them. Its just a rehash of the justice depts press release. He was just a doctor with an “ethnic” name who prescribed medicine. Its a witch hunt. He was forced to plead guilty. ktla.com/news/local-new…

I'm team #GIF. How do you pronounce it?

Just had surgery to repair right shoulder. Had left in ‘21. Was offered iv opiates after my surgery!!! Only 4 day supply of perc but i can ask for refill which i will do on principle. But ice machine is such a good pain killer. Also given nerve block which only lasted 12 hrs…/1

Contrast to c-section in ‘12 in nyc. After koldony ruined pain care in nyc. Had to beg for 5 oxy after they gave iv tylenol. Didn’t cut it . Was in recovery for 8 hrs away from my baby b/c they wouldn’t give me more. Said duramorph in the epidural should be enough/2

Agreed to a tap nerve block. Yesterday they gave me fent and versed for my shoulder. In ‘12 after open abdominal surgery and labor! i got nothing but external pain is nothing to me ..visceral is my worst pain …10 inch needle through 3 layers of fascia/3

Yesterday gave me hope that things are swinging back to a better place . Except for the 4 day supply should at least 7. Hoping to have leftovers as rescue meds since chronic pain care still sucks. Seriously want a full body ice machine/4

Biological Sex Differences: Key to Understanding Long COVID? medscape.com/viewarticle/bi…

What the DEA Does Not Understand Or Does Not Care About Medication Cessation Decisions | Journal of Medicine. Nursing Journals : American Society of Registered Nurses shar.es/ag2bQV

Had a problematic encounter with a PA after surgery stitches out. Couldn’t figure out why he was annoying me in the moment. Later I realized that he kept calling me “young lady” Im 53, he was in his 30s. Did he think he was flattering me? I just got condescending.

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While under light sedation for RFNA yesterday started talking about smoking & I said how could humans ever think that inhaling smoke wasn’t detrimental. The learning fellow says how could we ever think opioids were a good idea. WTF? /1.

I wish I had said wtf are you a PM doctor if you don’t know how life saving these meds are. But I did say I couldn’t be lying here calmly while you blast my nerves without the fentanyl and versed you’re pumping into me.