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Jay B. Shah, MD, on Reducing Opioid Use After Urologic Oncology Surgery

2018 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

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Jay B. Shah, MD, of Stanford University, discusses the role that surgeons can play as gatekeepers to the opioid epidemic, including the view that complex cancer operations can be performed with little to no opioid use (Abstract 269).



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