Jay B. Shah, MD, on Reducing Opioid Use After Urologic Oncology Surgery
2018 ASCO Quality Care SymposiumJay 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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