With my transition to opioid-free, I went from a mindset that this is a necessary evil for controlling pain for my patients after surgery so that they can achieve the outcome of having a repair or reconstruction to this is not necessary. And I approached my patients with that mindset to say, what's normal is that we don't use.
And we can use it, but the normal thing is not to use it. And if you have that buy-in based on the trust you've established with the patient, you can totally change their postoperative pain experience.
Michael Day is an orthopedic surgeon.
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