Mike Carruthers

Something's rubbing against something.

I'm trying to get a sense of what is it?

Stop doing that, doctor.

And so when you get a headache or you, you know, hurt yourself or whatever, often, you know, it's going to take two aspirin, call me in the morning, you take an Advil, take a Tylenol, take...

What does that do?

How does that work?

But I've heard people say that, well, if it's a headache, you should take ibuprofen.

But if it's a shoulder pain, you should take something else.

Is there any truth to that or they all work pretty much the same?

But at your house, when you get a headache or you get a pain in your leg or whatever, do you go after different medications?

And if so, specifically, which medication works for which kind of pain the best?

But not like they used to.

I mean, it used to be that was the go-to pain medication.

And, you know, take a Bayer aspirin and, you know, call me in the morning.

And it seems like nobody does that anymore.

Do you ever have to, as a pain specialist, do you ever have to say to someone, sorry, you're just going to have to live with it?

I know I've heard about natural ways to control pain through, I don't know, meditation or, you know, with your mind as opposed to with medication or surgery.

What about that?

I just find the topic so interesting because pain is obviously as real a thing as it can be.

And yet you can...