Disparities in the Treatment of the LGBTQ Population in Chronic Pain Management

Alaa Abd-Elsayed¹, Ann M Heyer¹, Michael E Schatman^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ School of Social Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Editorial

Alaa Abd-Elsayed et al. J Pain Res. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 30:14:3623-3625.

doi: 10.2147/JPR.S348525. eCollection 2021.

Alaa Abd-Elsayed¹, Ann M Heyer¹, Michael E Schatman^{2

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4}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ School of Social Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Michael E Schatman serves as a research consultant for Modoscript. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.

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