Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UC, Davis School of Medicine

Anesthesiology

Scott Fishman is an expert in the field of Anesthesiology. He went to medical school at University of Massachusetts Medical School. University of Massachusetts Medical School has a rank of 49 in research and a 12 in primary care He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Super Doctor". Scott Fishman is a published physician as well. He has 77 publications published. The latest was: Injection of the piriformis muscle by fluoroscopic and electromyographic guidance. Scott M. Fishman is registered with Medicare.

Publications

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• Core Competencies for Pain Management: Results of an Interprofessional Consensus Summit.
• Prescription Opioid Forgery: Reporting to Law Enforcement and Protection of Medical Information.
• Time Series Analysis of California's Prescription Monitoring Program: Impact on Prescribing and Multiple Provider Episodes.
• An analysis of the root causes for opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States.
• Prescription Drug monitoring programs serve a vital clinical need.
• An analysis of the number of multiple prescribers for opioids utilizing data from the California Prescription Monitoring Program.
• Strategies for selecting treatment and mitigating risk in patients with chronic Pain.
• Multimodal approaches to optimize outcomes of chronic opioid therapy in the management of chronic Pain.
• Performance improvement CME: managing chronic Pain.
• Computerized progress notes for chronic Pain patients receiving opioids; the Prescription Opioid Documentation System (PODS).
• Commentary to Michna et al.: The elephant in the room: hydrocodone/acetaminophen combination compounds and the substitution effect.
• Documenting and improving opioid treatment: the Prescription Opioid Documentation and Surveillance (PODS) System.
• Impact to spinal cord stimulator lead integrity with direct suture loop ties.
• Unintended harm from opioid prescribing guidelines.
• Psychological comorbidities predicting prescription opioid Abuse among patients in chronic pain presenting to the emergency department.
• Chronic Pain management in the emergency department: a survey of attitudes and beliefs.
• A qualitative study of the barriers to chronic Pain management in the ED.
• Biofeedback in Pain management: Bier blocks for complex regional Pain syndrome.
• Recognizing Pain management as a human right: a first step.
• Carpal tunnel syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, fibromyalgia, glucosamine and chondroitin, hypnosis in Pain management, marijuana for Pain.
• Legal aspects of chronic opioid therapy.
• A case of pulsed radiofrequency lesioning for occipital neuralgia.
• Risk of the view through the keyhole: there is much more to physician reactions to the DEA than the number of formal actions.
• An injection from the past: fluoroscopic evidence of remote injections of radiopaque substances.
• Pain and politics: DEA, Congress, and the courts, oh my!
• Pain medicine specialists imaging the brain for Pain.
• Botox for back Pain and "regular" versus migraine headaches.
• Surgery for leg numbness with back Pain, patient controlled analgesia, phantom limb Pain.
• The role of the Pain psychologist, trigger point injections, reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
• Trust and pharmaco-vigilance in Pain medicine.
• Pushing the Pain medicine horizon.
• From balanced pain care to Drug trafficking: the case of Dr. William Hurwitz and the DEA.
• Opioid side effects, addiction, and anti-inflammatory medications.
• Epidural steriods.
• Pain as the fifth vital sign: how can I tell when back Pain is serious.
• Prescription opioid Abuse in the emergency department.
• The case for Pain medicine.
• Regulating opioid prescribing through prescription monitoring programs: balancing Drug diversion and treatment of pain.
• Radiopharmaceuticals for palliation of Painful osseous metastases.
• Challenges and choices in Drug therapy for chronic pain.
• Methadone reincarnated: novel clinical applications with related concerns.
• Forensic Pain medicine.
• The trilateral opioid contract. Bridging the Pain clinic and the primary care physician through the opioid contract.
• The opioid contract.
• Radiation safety in Pain medicine.
• Evolving safe practices for chronic opioid therapy through regulation.
• Laparoscopic and thoracoscopic esophagomyotomy for children with achalasia.
• Computer-aided design and manufacture of prostheses is still experimental.
• Human brain activation under controlled thermal stimulation and habituation to noxious heat: an fMRI study.
• Palmtop computers on the medical wards.
• Clonazepam blockade of spontaneous and CO2 inhalation-provoked panic in a patient with panic Disorder.
• Basic mechanisms of Pain.
• Vasopressin response to lactate infusion in normals and patients with panic Disorder.
• Naloxone blocks exercise-stimulated water intake in the rat.
• Hypercapneic ventilatory response in patients with panic Disorder before and after alprazolam treatment and in pre- and postmenstrual women.
• Forensic issues in Pain: review of current practice.
• Whole-bowel irrigation as an adjunct in the treatment of radiopaque arsenic.
• Acute exacerbation of depression after discontinuation of monoamine oxidase inhibitor prior to cardiac surgery.
• Thyroid indices in panic Disorder.
• Lactate infusion in Anxiety research: its evolution and practice.
• Quantitative relationships between plasma beta-endorphin immunoactivity and hemodynamic performance in preoperative cardiac surgical patients.
• Our academy, our mission, our work!
• The use of "as-needed" range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute Pain: a consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing an...
• A review of sympathetically maintained Pain syndromes in the cancer Pain population: the spectrum of ambiguous entities of RSD, CRPS, SMP and other Pain states related...
• A randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of cannabis cigarettes in neuropathic Pain.
• Injection of the piriformis muscle by fluoroscopic and electromyographic guidance.
• The use of ''as-needed'' range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute Pain: a consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing ...
• The opioid contract in the management of chronic Pain.
• Opioid-based multimodal care of patients with chronic Pain: improving effectiveness and mitigating risks. Introduction.
• Profiling multiple provider prescribing of opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants, and anorectics.
• Markers of Abuse liability of short- vs long-acting opioids in chronic pain patients: a randomized cross-over trial.
• Physicians charged with opioid analgesic-prescribing offenses.
• Adherence monitoring and Drug surveillance in chronic opioid therapy.
• Pain management in the ED.
• Commentary in response to Paulozzi et al.: prescription drug Abuse and safe pain management.
• The opioid treatment agreement: a real-world perspective.

Schools

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• University Of Massachusetts Medical School

Conditions Treated

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• Adjustment Disorder
• Anxiety
• Bipolar Disorder
• Dysthymia and Cyclothymia (Mood Disorders)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Anesthesiology
• Internal Medicine
• Psychiatry

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• America's Top Doctors for Cancer
• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Super Doctor

Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• University of Massachusetts Medical School

Hospital

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• University of California, Davis Medical Center

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