Is Pain Medicine the Next Blockbuster Video?

[drusso]

This article should be required reading for any Pain Fellow or recent grad...

Who really killed Blockbuster?

With one store left in the world, the video rental chain's approaching extinction is a reminder of all the things that can go wrong in retail.

www.retaildive.com

"But plenty of observers think that Blockbuster’s fate was unavoidable. It built a high-cost physical retail business during a time when that was the most efficient way to deliver content. When that set of circumstances changed, when content was more efficiently delivered digitally, Blockbuster’s model became obsolete."

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[TheLoneWolf]

Maybe do canine acupuncture for cash pay

 

[blockstar]

Medicine is not a free market enterprise waiting to collapse.

Unless you run a pill mill or sell stem cells.

 

[willabeast]

Until they put a lid on spine surgery, pain medicine will be viable. OTOH if things went single payer, and the guv refused to pay for most spine surgery/procedures (i could see this happening), i suspect the only thing left for P.M. docs would be CRPS or people with cash who are unhappy with what their PCP tells them.

 

[blockstar]

great article though!

 

[BobBarker]

Interesting article but I don’t think it correlates at all with IPM.

 

[Agast]

You're essentially asking if interventional pain can be replaced by telemedicine. Maybe if you're a reiki practitioner.

 

[drusso]

Interesting article but I don’t think it correlates at all with IPM.

It's the knowledge illusion.

People Have Limited Knowledge. What’s the Remedy? Nobody Knows (Published 2017)

In a complex world, people fail to realize just how ignorant they are. In “The Knowledge Illusion,” Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach tell them.

www.nytimes.com

Blockbuster thought they knew their business inside and out. They didn't know ****. Whatever people think is the future of IPM is are probably wrong. If you think the future is stim, shooting cement in spines, or even stem cells. You're probably wrong.

Fishman, Portenoy, and Webster didn't see it coming. Does anyone think that Abbott, Medtronic, or Stryker has a better crystal ball? Are you going to hitch a wagon to Deer, Pope, or Beal?

 

[geauxg8rs]

It's the knowledge illusion.

People Have Limited Knowledge. What’s the Remedy? Nobody Knows (Published 2017)

In a complex world, people fail to realize just how ignorant they are. In “The Knowledge Illusion,” Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach tell them.

www.nytimes.com

Blockbuster thought they knew their business inside and out. They didn't know ****. Whatever people think is the future of IPM is are probably wrong. If you think the future is stim, shooting cement in spines, or even stem cells. You're probably wrong.

Fishman, Portenoy, and Webster didn't see it coming. Does anyone think that Abbott, Medtronic, or Stryker has a better crystal ball? Are you going to hitch a wagon to Deer, Pope, or Beal?

Maybe we can make money off rewinding fees? Please be kind and rewind

 

[drusso]

Maybe we can make money off rewinding fees? Please be kind and rewind

Suboxone. The final resting state of a traditional pain management clinic in a post-Elizabeth Warren health system is a bunch of depreciated equipment and a cohort of patients on Suboxone getting monthly telemedicine follow-ups by an NP.