Daily Remedy

Jessica is a chronic pain patient who is struggling to control her pain while fighting a health system bent on disenfranchising her at every turn. Please note that discussions of suicide and euthanasia are discussed in this video. We strongly encourage Jessica and all others who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide to seek counseling and medical therapy. If you are interested in learning more a...

Ashley Rodgers is a mother, wife and former healthcare worker. Additionally, she is a chronic pain patient of almost 30 years, who has been initiating legislative efforts to protect people in pain and their providers on both the state and national levels since the 2016 CDC Guidelines interrupted her pain management treatment in 2017. #opioids #CDC #DEA

We discuss Miss Pattani's reporting on opioid settlements, highlighting the advocacy of patients most affected. Through KFF Health News, she leads an initiative to track how opioid settlement funds are allocated. Miss Aneri Pattani is a national correspondent with KFF Health News, where she reports on a broad range of public health topics, including mental health, substance use, and the health...

We speak with Miss Kristen Ogden, patient advocate and newly minted legal expert who has filed the first motion to intervene from a patient advocacy group on behalf of her physician, Dr. David Bockoff, in an opioid prescribing related case. The case number is: USCA Case #23-1007. To learn how you can file a motion to intervene on behalf of your physician who you believe is unjustly targeted by the...

We speak with Mr. Jacob James Rich, who wrote an article in Reason Magazine - The Fight To Criminalize Opioid Prescribing - which provides a synopsis of his seminal work published in the Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia. We discuss the article in depth, gleaning important insights on how opioid data is mischaracterized to arrive at contrived narratives of physician over-prescribing. Mr. Jac...

Dr. Whyte is a three time author and the chief medical officer of WebMD. We discuss his latest book, Take Control of Your Heart Disease Risk. To purchase a copy, select the following link. https://www.amazon.com/Take-Control-Your-Heart-Disease/dp/0785240691 #WebMD #heart #disease

We catch up with Dr. Linda Cheek to glean her thoughts on the DEA's continuing encroachment into healthcare in a post-Ruan world. #opioids #DEA #patient #advocacy

Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, FACS, is a widely respected surgeon and public health expert. As founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Dr. Rogers built an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life-threatening events, such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence. His efforts have expanded trauma care on the South Side.

Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, serves as the policy director for the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. He leads the organization in coordinating, developing, and advocating for evidence-informed policy to end community violence. Besides this role, he continues to practice as an emergency physician and fellowship director in health policy with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His int...

Dr. Edwin Leap is an emergency physician with 24 years of experience. He is a well known communicator and a successful columnist, writing about everything from medicine to family, faith to culture and everything in between.

Mr. Omar Khateeb is an innovator in a field where traditional reigns. Starting as a device sales rep, Mr. Khateeb has carved a niche as a thought leader in the space of medical device sales. He advocates for social media in medical device sales and has the tract record to prove it. He is the host of two podcasts, The State of Medtech and Mind Loom, and is an active presence on social media, partic...

Miss Kirubanandan, affectionately known as Simi, Smriti Kirubanandan is an experienced healthcare strategist with 14 years of work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and innovation. She is a board member of the Word Food Bank, where she focuses on equity and equality in the space of nutritious food and making an impact to improve public health by eradicating hunger and improving food p...

Mr. Michael Johnson is a lawyer who specializes in physician contracts. He has an active social media presence where he can be found educating physicians on best practices when it comes to negotiating and signing contracts. He is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and Louisiana, and graduated from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Virk is a Neurologist trained in interventional spine and pain management who founded the startup, MediSprout. MediSprout connects doctors with their patients using secure two-way video through a platform that can be downloaded onto a smart device or desktop. It promotes continuity of care by keeping doctors and patients better connected between visits, providing an easy way to refill prescrip...

He is the director of Experiential Learning and Clinical Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. He is actively involved in patient care and policy at the WVU Integrative Pain Management Center. And he is the host of the Pain Pod on the Pharmacy Podcast Network. Today we discuss the implications of President Biden’s decision to issue a mass pardon for those with federal convictions for ma...

Patient, activist, and lobbyist, Miss Stewart uses her experience as a patient to garner experience as a public policy advocate for chronic pain patients. She has an unusually high success rate in enacting legislation at the state and federal level. Recently she advocated for patient centric policies at the CDC.

Kathleen J. O’Shea, Professor of English at Monroe Community College (Rochester, N.Y.) is a 44-year migraine sufferer, has taken her passion for literature and her chronic illness to create So Much More than A Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature. Kathy has transitioned from being a migraine patient to one who wants to combine her life experience and her professional expertise to he...

Mr. Breen is the connecting superhero for every visionary-, investment-, abundance-mindset entrepreneur who shares their stories with the world. He is the CEO of BrEpic Communications and BrEpic Network, and of course, the author of Epic Life.

We speak with Mr. JeVon McCormick, CEO of Scribe Media and author of Modern Leader. Mr. He helps individuals from a variety of backgrounds write, publish, and market their books. Scribe Media has worked with over 1700 authors, including members of The Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Nassim Taleb and David Goggins, whose blockbuster book Can’t Hurt Me has sold over 2 million copies. To learn more abou...

We speak with Sam Lacrosse, author of Value Economics: The Study of Identity and a commercial cloud executive at Oracle. Sam LaCrosse is a nobody. He hasn't done anything amazing. He is not extraordinary or impressive. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. He's just an ordinary guy from Cleveland, Ohio, who now lives an ordinary life in Austin, Texas. But if you want to check him out, he writes...

Dr. Joshi speaks with bankers at BMO Harris to discuss financial literacy among patients with substance use dependency.

We discuss trends in the comments that have appeared in response to the draft version of the updated clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. Richard A. Lawhern, PhD, is a technically trained non-physician with 20 years of experience in peer-to-peer patient support groups for chronic pain patients. His work and commentaries have been published or featured at the US Tr...

We discuss the many layers of bureaucracy within federal organizations like the CDC and FDA, and reveal how those layers allow for undue corporate influence and counterintuitive policies. The Chronic Illness Advocacy & Awareness Group, Inc. (CIAAG) is a national non-profit organization focused on Public-Private-Partnership initiatives within the Healthcare Sector. CIAAG acts as a liaison betwe...

Today we are here with Dr. Thomas Kline and Jonelle Elgaway, of the National Pain Council, a citizen's group with no ties to any university, drug company, corporate entity, or government entity, operating solely as an independent entity to provide facts and write papers in support for legislative change over the opioid epidemic. Dr. Thomas Kline is the Chief Medical Adviser and Miss Jonelle Elgawa...

We discuss the rise in retractions among academic publications, and the pandemic's impact on retractions in clinical journals over the last two years. Mr. Marcus is a health journalist with over 25 years of experience in science, health, medicine. He is the Editorial Director for Primary Care at Medscape. He is also the Co-founder of Retraction Watch, a blog focusing on issues of research integrit...