Mike Carruthers

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...

You can trick people.

I mean, you know, the dentist does it all the time when he says, you're going to feel a little pressure here.

It's not pressure.

It hurts like hell.

But by setting that expectation, it probably doesn't hurt as much as if he had said, this is going to hurt a lot.

And it does.

It somehow enters into the equation, what you expect is what you get.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's so interesting.