Publisher's Synopsis
Pain, death and taxes are inevitable. One cannot avoid death and taxes. Pain however can be controlled. This book is a survival guide for pain patients. It describes various pain entities and suggests treatments. Dr. Ackerman is a clinician, academician, lecturer, author, researcher, and is an expert witness in pain management medical malpractice cases, as well as bodily injury and Workman's Compensation cases. Dr. Ackerman is: Board Certified in both Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology, is a Graduate of the University Of Louisville School Of Medicine. He did a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky, and was Chief Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and he did a Fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas and is one of a few fellowship trained pain management physicians in Arkansas. Dr. Ackerman was: Nominated previously for the Southern Medical Society Medical Research Award, Bristol-Meyers Squibb award for distinguished achievement in Pain Research was a recipient of the Karl Koehler research grant from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He (as an expert in RSD) is a coauthor of the CRPS chapter in the AMA Guides to Disease and injury Causation (2nd Edition). He has been a guest speaker at medical school department meetings, Workman's Compensation meetings and academic symposiums throughout the country and at international meetings as well as an Arkansas Bar Association meeting. His research has been featured in the National media (Chicago Tribune and National television). He published seventeen books and many chapters in multiple medical textbooks including the AMA best seller: The AMA Guides to Injury and Disease Causation (First and Second editions). He authored 137 scientific articles in prestigious medical journals such as: Anesthesia Analgesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, The Journal of Hand Surgery etc. He was selected recently for "Top Doc 2017." He has been on the Editorial Board of two medical journals as well. He was a Lt. Col in the US Army Medical Corps and Chief of Anesthesiology of two Army Medical Center Hospitals. He was director of pain management at two private hospitals. He was also an Emergency Room physician at the Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Dr. Ackerman was Director of Pain Management at a University Hospital pain clinic and was an Associate Professor as well as an attending clinical instructor in critical care and hyperbaric medicine. He was an Associate Professor and Director of Obstetric Anesthesia at the University of Kentucky. He was director of pain management at two private hospitals and was selected to "Who's Who in International Medicine." He was also selected for "Top Doctor 2017" by Top Doc. Dr. Ackerman has a strong belief in medical ethics and the prevention of medical fraud. As a previous academic/clinical physician who has done significant pain management medical research, he follows the principles of Evidence Based Medicine. Pain, death and taxes cannot be avoided but the suffering of pain can be controlled with proper medical management. This book informs the reader that the suffering of pain unlike death and taxes can be controlled.
