{"id":53794,"date":"2016-03-22T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/patients_in_pain_and_a_doctor_who_must_limit_drugs\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:00:12","slug":"patients_in_pain_and_a_doctor_who_must_limit_drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53794","title":{"rendered":"NYT&#8211;Patients in pain, and a doctor who must limit drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the lunch-rush shift. \u201cWe were really busy,\u201d\u009d she told Dr. Robert L. Wergin, trying to smile through deeply etched lines of exhaustion. \u201cThursdays, it\u2019s Philly cheesesteaks.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Her back ached from a compression fracture; a shattered elbow was still mending; her left-hip sciatica was screaming louder than usual. She takes a lot of medication for chronic pain, but today it was just not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Yet rather than increasing her dose, Dr. Wergin was tapering her down. \u201cSusan, we\u2019ve got to get you to five pills a day,\u201d\u009d he said gently.<\/p>\n<p>She winced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20160322\/PC1601\/160329892\/1005\/patients-in-pain-and-a-doctor-who-must-limit-their-drugs\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the lunch-rush shift. \u201cWe were really busy,\u201d\u009d she told Dr. Robert L. Wergin, trying to smile through deeply etched lines of exhaustion. \u201cThursdays, it\u2019s Philly cheesesteaks.\u201d\u009d Her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53794\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,99,168,104,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}