Ask Me Anything - Pain Management Physician #painmedicine #painmanagement

Learn what it's like to be a Pain Management Physician from Dr. Steven Lobel!

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***Questions Answered***
2:09 When did you first decide to become a physician and why?
3:20 Why did you decide to pursue your specialty?
5:22 What's a typical day look like? What does a pain management physician do?
6:41 Is it possible to cater your practice towards mostly procedures/mostly med check visits?
8:52 Can you share a bit about your patient population?
11:32 What's the most satisfying part of your job?
14:10 What role do general surgeons have in the pain management process?
18:13 How should pain physicians get trained in minimally invasive spine surgery procedures and other cutting edge game changing procedures?
20:58 Can you talk a bit about the variety of procedures you might have in any given week?
24:47 What do you dislike the most about your job?
27:05 Could you speak to the current job market and pain medicine and how it may look in the future?
28:46 I've heard that reimbursement and pain management have tumbled in recent years. How much if at all has had this affected you and do you expect trying to continue if indeed the rumors are true?
31:31 Do pain docs ever have side gigs?
34:00 How do you balance work and your hobbies?
37:31 How might things be different between practicing: pain, medicine, EEG, PPP employed, PP, inpatient VA?
40:55 What advice do you have for students interested in pursuing pain medicine in general or pain management medicine?

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