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#368 Back Pain Update with Dr. Austin Baraki

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Are You Getting Back Pain Cocktails?

Some patients get admitted to the hospital for this. It's just refractory. They've been doing acetaminophen and said it's just not working. And I've seen all sorts of back pain cocktails. What do you think about that? Do you have a back pain cocktail? Maybe recording that term. But we have a migraine cocktail. Why not a back pain Cocktail? Yeah. Okay. So the take home point from this discussion for imaging is it's not always the wrong answer. There are some cases where you're going to want to get imaging. With this case here, I think it would be reasonable to just move on to management for this guy because we gave you

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