"I can't take in every stray puppy": How U.S. pain specialists purify pain management through opioid-related gatekeeping.

U.S. pain specialists have always rallied against their profession being cast as "dirty work" - work that is undesirable, socially stigmatized, and morally questionable - due to both its object of study (chronic pain) and one of its primary treatment…

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