masterPain
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Funniest part is this specialty has turned into a *****. Anyone can basically practice pain without a fellowship or non accredited one. (Eg family practice, PM&R, and radiology). I should start a fellowship lol.His former boss constantly pumped a 24 month pain fellowship plan, and if you sat down at a table with him (Sean Mackey) he’d utterly destroy you in that debate.
PA/NPs are doing procedures. CRNAs have an online fellowship doing 90% or what we do.
Yet they wanna do a 24 month accredited fellowship? What does it get us? Better TFESIs? Better RFAs? GTFO
I know they’re gonna say this field is becoming a surgical subspecialty. 80% of what we do surgically are SCS/ITP and a year is plenty if you go to a decent program. Vertiflex. Easy. SI fusion. Easy. Even minuteman are pretty easy.
The next rebuttal, you can’t fix you own complications. In 7 years I haven’t needed to “fix my own complication”. I am able to remove any ISPs (besides MM). But if i ever need help I have a dozen people to call.
Is a 24 month fellowship going to show us how to perform a spinal decompression for epidural hematoma?
I can’t handle how much of a waste of time most medical training is. I spent 17 years post high school in higher education .
Let’s just call it what it is. They want to extend the GME slavery.
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