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Don't keep pain from your doctor (Simi Valley Acorn)

A nationwide survey found that a sizable gap exists between patients and healthcare professionals when it comes to understanding and discussing pain. To address this discrepancy, a new coalition of leading pain management organizations has formed to improve how patients and healthcare professionals communicate with each other.

Sanjog Pangarkar, MD is 2008 SCCPI Excellence in Pain Management awardee (Mt. Vernon Register-News)

As director of the Inpatient Pain Service at the VA Los Angeles and co-director of the Interventional Pain Service, Dr. Pangarkar “regularly demonstrates his understanding that cancer pain is often inadequately treated,”according to submitted information.

Port Arthur pain management facility employees face up to 10 years on fraud charges (Beaumont Enterprise)

A 77-year-old physician and two other employees of Port Arthur-based Medic Management, PA face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on charges that they fraudulently billed Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies.

County: Taxpayers won't feel budget 'pain' (Lancaster Online)

Think of the 2009 county budget as an exercise in pain management.Commissioner Chairman Dennis Stuckey said arriving at a budget proposal that controls spending and slightly reduces county expenses was difficult for many departments.But he said, "We've tried to spread the pain as much as we possibly...

More Topical than Ever: Alternatives to Oral Pain Relievers (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - Pain is pervasive in America, and it's not just the kind caused by rising gas and grocery prices or the current mortgage crisis.