Tessera
Folgen

Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD

@noneedlesspain.bsky.social

Elisa and Marc Stad Professor for Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine. University of California San Francisco. Benioff Children’s Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, USA.

29 Posts412 Follower324 Folgt
Kristen “KC” Campbell@kriscams.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re looking for a rockstar part-time social worker to help build a Pediatric Palliative dream team here at Yale New Haven. Position is part-time, 24h/wk with benefits. Come join us as we grow and support better QOL for our pediatric patients and their families! jobs.ynhhs.org/jobs/75299?l...

Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut | Yale New Haven Health

Yale New Haven Health Services is hiring a Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut. Review all of the job details and apply today!

jobs.ynhhs.org

Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD@noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hot off the press: Our recent publication in British Medical Journal: Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life-we can do better every time in every child bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child - BMC Medicine

Background Needle procedures, such as vaccinations, blood draws, and intravenous cannulation, are the most frequent source of childhood pain, causing fear and reducing the uptake of medical procedures...

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com

Katelynn Boerner @katelynnboerner.bsky.social · 2y ago

My first post here and I can't think of a more fitting occasion: sharing our paper on chronic pain experiences in gender-diverse youth has been published! This work was an amazing team effort and a labour of love, and I'm so proud to be sharing it now: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39820473/ 🌈

Experiences of Gender-Diverse Youth Living With Chronic Pain - PubMed

In a diverse sample of gender-diverse youth who live with chronic pain, experiences of invalidation and difficulty managing pain were experienced in the context of unique stressors and sources of joy ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD@noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Chronic pain is a disorder of the central nervous system. In some cases, pain signals just keep firing, driven by what researchers now think is a complex set of genetic, endocrinological and immunologic processes.” By Jennifer Kahn @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.

nytimes.com

Eduardo Bruera@brueraeduardo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Insurance cartels impose denials or unaffordable co-payments to the majority of opioids we prescribe for cancer pain. Opioid rotation has become extremely difficult. Will this year bring Robin Hood or a French Revolution to limit their unethical practices?

Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD@noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 2y ago

Follow-up of adolescents in chronic pain 6 years later: Higher pain intensity, more pain locations, lower sleep quality, and greater anxiety symptoms in adolescence predicted worse pain outcomes in young adulthood pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38916525/

Adolescent predictors of young adult pain and health outcomes: results from a 6-year prospective follow-up study - PubMed

Adolescent chronic pain may lead to persistent disability and long-term health impairments in adulthood. However, our understanding of which youth are more likely to experience adverse outcomes remain...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov