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Scope
of Services
The scope of
pain management is comprehensive, goal-oriented and multidisciplinary.
Upper Michigan’s Pain Evaluation and Treatment Network can
quickly assess a patients needs and refer the pain patient to a
proper and appropriate specialist. Core specialties may include
the following:
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Anesthesiology |
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Oncology |
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Emergency
medicine |
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Oral surgery |
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Neurology |
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Orthopedics |
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Neuropsychology |
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Pain Management
Specialist |
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Neuroradiology |
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Rehabilitation |
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Neurosurgery |
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Rheumatology |
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Occupational
Medicine |
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Substance
Abuse and Addiction |
* Other specialties
would be recruited for applicable circumstances such as ear, nose
and throat, cardiology, GI, urology, ophthalmology, OB-GYN, and
internal medicine.
| Admission
Criteria |
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The
pain network will accept and refer all patients who suffer from
various types of acute and chronic pain. |
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Admission
will be accepted from treating physicians as well as from self-referring
patients who have exhausted existing resources |
| Our
Commitment to Excellence |
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The Upper Michigan
Pain Evaluation and Treatment Network is committed and dedicated
to upholding the highest in quality, efficiency and effectiveness
standards while keeping with the mission of Marquette General Health
System, the regional medical center.
Once in the
network, the patient can be assured that they will move swiftly
through the healthcare system of providing specialists as they will
be closely monitored and tracked by a pain network representative.
You
are the expert in your pain!
It is our goal to insure that the patient or family become the authority
of the pain management program by ensuring:
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Sufficient
knowledge to make informed decisions |
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Sufficient
resources to ask and receive answers to questions in a timely
manner |
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Patient
and family are respected members of the pain management team
and that goals of the program are the patients goals |
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