Sometimes a painkiller drug may be referred to as a “narcotic-like” medicine, but any true narcotic medication will have action at one of these opioid receptors.Tramadol is often referred to as a “narcotic-like” medication suggesting it may be safer, but this is not really true. It ...
Switching patients from one opioid painkiller to another may be necessary for many reasons, whether cost, drug availability or the patient developing a tolerance. Opioid equivalents and conversions charts allow doctors to switch drugs while maintaining the same level of painkilling effectiveness and avoi...
For those chronic cases, you realize that they are just musculoskeletal pain, you can just give painkiller." PCP (FGD1): "In the private sector, we see two types of ischemic heart disease patients. Those fresh cases, they've never been worked up, they step into the consultation room ...