Pain Management: History & Legal Issues

This course is the introduction to a series of pain management courses. The focus of this course is an overview of treatment of pain management, as well as an in-depth study of the ethical, professional, and legal implications of the pain management health care professional. Historical aspects of pain management, current techniques of pain clinics, ethical bases of applied treatment, and basic questions of interview and assessment are reviewed. The impact of malpractice via case law, techniques of responding in the context of deposition, and an examination of the health care professional as expert witness are ethical issues that are addressed.