Exemptions for Intractable and End-of-Life Care??
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00:00But what they did was exclusively eliminated that patients who have intractable pain or
00:09need end-of-life care are exempt from these regulations.
00:15Now this is an opening that we have not had in the United States.
00:21We've never had this.
00:23It might surprise everyone to know that there is no published guidelines on who is an intractable
00:31pain patient.
00:32The term intractable itself just means incurable by any known means, but it doesn't distinguish
00:38the chronic pain patient from the intractable pain patient, so people have ignored it.