[perfect stranger]

**Here is a neurologist-- a physician who is a specialist in treating pain** I must point out that you are wrong. Who told you that a Neurologist specializes in treating pain?

A neurologist is a medical doctor or osteopath who has trained in the diagnosis and treatment of nervous system disorders, including diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles.

Neurologists perform neurological examinations of the nerves of the head and neck; muscle strength and movement; balance, ambulation, and reflexes; and sensation, memory, speech, language, and other cognitive abilities.

[Brytani]

Are you trying to say that a neurologist does not treat pain associated with nerve and/or nervous system disease or injury?

[ccmay]

Who told you that a Neurologist specializes in treating pain?

You're joking, right? Or a complete ignoramus about medicine? Pain is transmitted by the nervous system.

Neurologists begin learning about pain relief as first-year residents. Some neurologists go on to do pain-relief fellowships, and specialize in the field to the exclusion of all else. Along with anesthesiologists, neurologists are the specialists who are consulted about pain relief issues by other physicians.

-ccm

[mo]

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