AMDA Participates in National Pain Summit

William Smucker, MD, CMD, represented AMDA at a national summit on pain management late last year. At the American Medical Association Section Council Pain Summit, five work groups identified dominant pain issues, such as that appropriate pain care is available but that patients need education to obtain it. The groups agreed that pain education should be improved in medical training and that a model encouraging collaboration between primary care and specialty physicians should be developed so patients can find the right physicians to treat their pain.