LAS VEGAS—Surgeon and physician perceptions of patients’ postoperative pain suggest that inadequately managed pain negatively affects patient recovery and reflects a need for more effective, safer therapeutics, according to the findings of a recent study.
“One of the things we have to better understand is why surgeons are prescribing such a high dose of opioids, and what are their perceptions and what are their feelings around opioids? What’s the reason underlying these