rakaur
Greenlighter
Hi everyone!
I've been lurking here on bluelight for years. Because of my profession I've henceforth shied away from posting. I'm both a long-time chronic pain patient, and a PA-C involved in the treatment of pain myself. Being both a pain doctor and a pain patient I have a somewhat broad take on things.
I'll do my best to answer any medical questions but my posts are not to be taken as medical advice. My specialty is the pharmacology of pain mechanisms. That is, the pharmacodynamics of the drugs used to treat pain, and the pharmacokinetics of the body with those drugs. Also, I study the endogenous pain systems in detail, but my primary focus overall is the pharmacology of pain and so I hope to be particularly helpful regarding the more advanced concepts of how the drugs do what they do and how the body reacts to them.
Since I work primarily in dealing with pain, my center of knowledge is based around opioids and other analgesics. However, before I became a PA my background was primarily pharmacology so I do have a broad base of pharmacological knowledge, I just wanted to make the point that I specialize in pain medicine.
For those who don't know, a PA is a Physician Associate (formerly Physician Assistant). We go through medical school like an MD, but for two years instead of four. We don't have internship/residency and we're not locked into a particular speciality. We have to enter into a "supervision agreement" with an MD or DO but in practice it's mostly a formal thing and we're pretty autonomous and, in most states, the practical difference between an MD and a PA isn't much. Think of a PA like a Nurse Practitioner except PAs go through medical school and CRNPs go through nursing school.
Anyway, I hope that in the future I can help out this community that I've sat and lurked in and learned a lot from in the past!
I've been lurking here on bluelight for years. Because of my profession I've henceforth shied away from posting. I'm both a long-time chronic pain patient, and a PA-C involved in the treatment of pain myself. Being both a pain doctor and a pain patient I have a somewhat broad take on things.
I'll do my best to answer any medical questions but my posts are not to be taken as medical advice. My specialty is the pharmacology of pain mechanisms. That is, the pharmacodynamics of the drugs used to treat pain, and the pharmacokinetics of the body with those drugs. Also, I study the endogenous pain systems in detail, but my primary focus overall is the pharmacology of pain and so I hope to be particularly helpful regarding the more advanced concepts of how the drugs do what they do and how the body reacts to them.
Since I work primarily in dealing with pain, my center of knowledge is based around opioids and other analgesics. However, before I became a PA my background was primarily pharmacology so I do have a broad base of pharmacological knowledge, I just wanted to make the point that I specialize in pain medicine.
For those who don't know, a PA is a Physician Associate (formerly Physician Assistant). We go through medical school like an MD, but for two years instead of four. We don't have internship/residency and we're not locked into a particular speciality. We have to enter into a "supervision agreement" with an MD or DO but in practice it's mostly a formal thing and we're pretty autonomous and, in most states, the practical difference between an MD and a PA isn't much. Think of a PA like a Nurse Practitioner except PAs go through medical school and CRNPs go through nursing school.
Anyway, I hope that in the future I can help out this community that I've sat and lurked in and learned a lot from in the past!
