DECEMBER 17, 2021

Isolation, Case Surges and Telemedicine Complicate Pain Medicine Nearly 2 Years Into Pandemic

Las Vegas—Navigating pain care for both patients and providers alike has continued in complexity two years after the first COVID-19 cases were discovered in China and about 21 months following the beginning of U.S. shutdowns in March 2020. “Things have been really hard in Arkansas recently,” Johnathan H. Goree, MD, an interventional pain physician, told Pain Medicine News in an interview at PAINWeek 2021, where he conducted a lecture on the pandemic’s effects on pain