It’s been called the benzodiazepine injury syndrome. Patients who stop using benzodiazepines may not go through a simple, acute withdrawal process. Instead, 10-15% of patients may experience a new, unexplained illness, leading to severe and disabling symptoms. Carrie Silvernail, our first guest shares her five and a half year battle with this protracted withdrawal syndrome. It forced her into retirement, produced migrating body pain, and lead to intense phonophobia among a host of other symptoms. Then, a leading specialist in the field, Dr. Steven Wright uncovers the details of this hidden syndrome while recommending measures for prevention and treatment.

This week's conversation is with CEO and co-founder of Gentem, Dr. Fisayo Ositelu. Gentem is a company that takes a tech forward approach to giving private practice physicians visibility, to reimbursement and billing challenges that they may have.

Today’s podcast brings together four important leaders in the field of interventional pain medicine, and the future growth of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). ASIPP, Immediate Past President Harold Cordner MD and President Amol Soin MD welcome Michael Lubrano and Kunji Patel for an interactive discussion on the future of IPM: Where we are now and what our future holds. Certainly we are at an exciting time, and who would have seen it coming? Ten years ago would we have talked about therapeutic cannabis? How about regenerative medicine as a major opportunity to afford relief to our patients, certification, a first and leading textbook “Essentials of Regenerative Medicine”, the opportunities to demonstrate skills in person, online, and via TeleTesting. Our meetings have been virtual, then hybrid, and now we look forward to meeting again in person for fellowship, and the excitement of interpersonal meeting and greeting. COVID-19 has touched us all. As one of the greatest tennis players of all time once said that he won by finding advantage in adversity. The leadership at the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians has stepped up with guidelines, and best practices for our challenging times. Looking forward to our younger physicians, we find emergence of the enthusiasm and specialty development that is such a dynamic component of our organization. We continue to look forward to leadership from the youthful injection of talent and the enthusiasm that is embraced by the ASIPP and our specialty. This is what keeps us as a leadership community as we look forward for the necessary but often underestimated epidemic of pain control, while we also address the opioid crisis and COVID head-on. We are truly one of the few specialists that have three crises that are managed and processed to design successful solutions by innovation, our younger participants, membership, and the promise that each individual brings with their unique talent. The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians welcomes our new generation, and I hope this podcast gives just a hint of how much enthusiasm we have ahead of us. We hope you enjoyed this podcast!

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ReGenMed101 Interview Series with Dr. Samuel Shem (aka Stephen Bergman) the author of House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital. He received his Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School, PhD from University of Oxford, and currently serves as an esteemed NYU Langone Hospital and School of Medicine Faculty. In this podcast listen to him discuss his motivation for writing the New York Times Best Seller House of God. His philosophy that affected thousands if not hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers for over 3 decades. He further details the injustice he witnessed first-hand and now brings to the forefront injustice to the current medical system for both healthcare workers and patients. Dr. Shem will also read 2 excerpts from his new book Man's 4th Best Hospital, and calls to action the doctors of our time find ways to bring the human back to medicine. Pre-Order his new book here: "Man's 4th Best Hospital" on Amazon Learn more about Dr. Sam Shem: on his official Website: www.mans4thbesthospital.com/ Thank you for listening, don't forget to subscribe.