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I'm a med student finishing up my 3rd year and pain medicine is high on my list of possible specialties (probably through PM&R or Anesthesia). However, how feasible is it to practice pain without using fluoro/ct (ie avoiding radiation) for injections/procedures? I know that the use of U/S guided procedures has come along way and continues to grow, but would I be shutting myself out of more invasive spinal procedures and the like if I only used U/S? In your practice, how often do you actually do procedures where the standard of care requires imaging with fluoro? How much would I be hurting/limiting my practice and having to refer patients to other pain docs to have these fluoro-only procedures done?
Thanks in advance for any help/advice.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice.