With anesthesia as his area of expertise, Dr Gerald Sacks has been practicing for over 39 years since graduating from University of Massachusetts Medical School and getting his license to practice. He completed a fellowship in pain management at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His research interests include neuropathic pain, psychosocial issues as they related to pain perception, and musculoskeletal, mechanical aspects of pain perception.

Pertaining to his expertise as an anesthesiologist, Dr Gerald Sacks provides pain relief during and after an operation, and treats acute and long-standing pain problems. Addressing the issues of opioid dependency, he believes that patients continue to take these medications far beyond the period of which time their pain was occurring.

He is of the strong opinion that it is the responsibility of the pain management practitioner to discuss and treat any adverse effects that may be caused by medications prescribed. They need to have a discussion with every patient who is on opioid about their bowel function.

About Gerald Sacks

Affiliated with Olympia Medical Center, Dr Gerald Sacks shares that although the appropriate balanced nutrition with appropriate vegetables, fruit, and dietary fiber helps prevent OIC [opioid-induced constipation] and other types of constipation, it is equally important to be as active as the patients are permitted to be.