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What is it?

Pain medicine specialists assess, diagnose and treat patients with complex pain, caused by acute injury, chronic pain that persists after an injury has healed, related to cancer, or sometimes as a primary problem without an obvious cause.  Treatment of complex pain conditions often involves a multi-disciplinary approach. 

Chronic back pain from a medicolegal perspective

by Dr Rishi Khanna, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management

Back pain is extremely common; only the common cold occurs more frequently (1, 2). The annual incidence of back pain is around 15–20%, and up to 85% of people will be affected at some point during their lifetime (1, 3-7). It has an enormous physical and financial cost, as it restricts function, participation in daily […]

The medicolegal challenges of chronic pain: from diagnosis to treatment

Chronic pain is extremely common, affecting as many as 20% of adults in the UK at any one time. Chronic pain conditions are amongst the commonest reasons for disablement, with low back and neck pain consistently being the leading causes.

The medicolegal implications of hindsight bias 

In the context of clinical medicine, bias is the predisposition to form premature or undue impressions that are not based on the actual data to hand. Hindsight bias refers to the tendency to exaggerate one’s own ability to predict the inevitability of an outcome once that outcome is already known.