Telling a patient pain medication causes pain is a form of mental illness It’s akin to telling patients benzodiazepine cause anxiety

After 10 years of advocacy, here’s what I’ve learned: interventional pain was an industry built on the backs of desperate pain patients; harm reduction is a jobs program fueled by opioid settlement funds, addiction medicine is Suboxone cult, state medical boards were created to destroy doctors lives and if you allow a surgeon to torture you postoperatively, they will

🫀 What If a Pacemaker Never Had to Be Put Inside Your Body? Imagine needing a pacemaker, but instead of surgery, wires, and a device implanted inside your chest, a tiny patch simply rests on your skin. It sounds almost impossible—but researchers have now demonstrated an experimental system that could one day make this idea a reality. The device is about the size of a postage stamp and uses focused ultrasound rather than electrical wires to influence the heartbeat. In laboratory experiments with engineered human heart cells and tests in rats, researchers were able to restore normal heart rhythms without placing hardware inside the heart. The secret is a technique called sonogenetics. Researchers first make certain heart cells sensitive to ultrasound. When the wearable patch sends carefully timed sound waves into the body, special channels in those cells respond by opening. This allows calcium to enter the cells—a natural signal that tells heart muscle to contract. In other words, instead of an electrode delivering an electrical pulse directly to the heart, sound waves can be used to trigger the cells that control each heartbeat. The technology is still experimental and is nowhere near replacing conventional pacemakers yet. But the possibility is fascinating. If researchers can make the system safe, precise, and reliable in humans, future versions could potentially reduce the need for implanted wires and repeated procedures such as battery replacements. And there is an even bigger possibility. A wearable patch could eventually monitor the heart, detect an abnormal rhythm, and respond automatically, combining heart monitoring and treatment in one device. For now, it is only an early proof of concept. But it raises a remarkable question: Could the future of pacemakers involve no wires inside the heart at all—just sound traveling through the body? 📄 Source: Nature Biomedical Engineering DOI: 10.1038/s41551-026-01673-z

“Living with #ChronicPain isn’t just about living with pain. The #fatigue that pain brings is beyond comprehension. Then there’s the loneliness and hopelessness. Stress, #anxiety and #depression… It steals so much from us.” buff.ly/vFLiGfP #PainAwarenessMonth

I met someone who used to distribute Narcan until the funding ran out Harm reduction is a jobs program Once the funding runs out, they find a new job

What could possibly go wrong with the spinal cord stimulator? Say no to the spinal cord stimulator. #JustSayNo and if the interventional pain fraudster threatens to cut you off your medicine, report them to the AG

“I have hundreds of patients asking me to detox them off Suboxone. I’ve had patients that do not meet criteria for SUD however we are told to place them on Suboxone. It is not a chronic pain medication.”

“I have hundreds of patients asking me to detox them off Suboxone. I’ve had patients that do not meet criteria for SUD however we are told to place them on Suboxone. It is not a chronic pain medication.”

Pain medication is suicide prevention Make OxyContin great again. Save a life.