Dr. Scott M. Fishman M.D.
Anesthesiologist
4150 V St Pssb-Suite 1200 Sacramento CA, 95817About
Dr. Scott Fishman is an anesthesiologist practicing in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Fishman ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Fishman also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ma Med Sch- Worcester Ma 1990
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiation safety in pain medicine.
- Challenges and choices in drug therapy for chronic pain.
- Methadone reincarnated: novel clinical applications with related concerns.
- Radiopharmaceuticals for palliation of painful osseous metastases.
- Regulating opioid prescribing through prescription monitoring programs: balancing drug diversion and treatment of pain.
- From balanced pain care to drug trafficking: the case of Dr. William Hurwitz and the DEA.
- Opioid side effects, addiction, and anti-inflammatory medications.
- Addiction.
- Pushing the pain medicine horizon.
- Epidural steriods.
- Trust and pharmaco-vigilance in pain medicine.
- An injection from the past: fluoroscopic evidence of remote injections of radiopaque substances.
- Pain as the fifth vital sign: how can I tell when back pain is serious.
- Pain and politics: DEA, Congress, and the courts, oh my!
- Prescription opioid abuse in the emergency department.
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