Dr Gerald Sacks Considers Education an Important Factor in the Unmet Needs in the Management of OIC

1. Dr Dr Gerald Gerald Sacks import important ant factor Sacks considers considers education factor in in the the unmet unmet needs management management of education an needs in of OIC OIC an the in the Dr Dr Gerald Gerald Sacks opioid dependency. patients usually start taking opioids in the face of pain. However, they continue to take these medications far beyond the period of which time occurring. He further health care practitioners considerate enough to discuss and treat any adverse effects that may be caused by the medications prescribed. Sacks addresses the issue of He believes that their states pain that was the to need be Considering the fact that OIC must be a normal part of each patient’s visit, Dr Sacks believes that it is important that the practitioner makes comfortable while phrasing this question. They must be asked about the quality of the patients

2. pain, its intensity, how often it occurs, and what they are doing to increase their pain, whether pharmacologically, physical therapy modalities or lifestyle changes. using Adding to his education credentials, Dr Gerald Gerald Sacks Sacks received his medical degree from University of Massachusetts Medical School and has been in practice for 32 years. He is specialized management, hospice medicine, and perioperative medicine. Dr in palliative pain and Talking about the unmet needs in the management of OIC, Dr Sacks considers education an important believes that more educational awareness of OIC would be beneficial for treating the patients. factor. He Dr Dr Gerald Gerald Sacks Sacks has lectured nationally

3. and internationally on pain management, and has served as an invited speaker at many CME and grand round presentations throughout the United States. He is the Director of Pain Management at the Pain Institute of Santa Monica. He completed a fellowship in pain management at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.