Dr. John T Farrar MD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd. Penn Medicine Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
5/5
About
Dr. John Farrar practices Pain Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Farrar serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1981
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1981
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fifty landmark discoveries in gastroenterology during the past 50 years. A brief history of modern gastroenterology at the millennium: Part I. Gastrointestinal procedures and upper gastrointestinal disorders.
- Returning control of health care to the patient-physician nexus.
- Fifty landmark discoveries in gastroenterology during the past 50 years. A brief history of modern gastroenterology at the millennium: Part II. Gastrointestinal motility, nutrition, and diseases of the lower gastrointestinal tract, liver, and pancrea
- What is clinically meaningful: outcome measures in pain clinical trials.
- Ethnicity influences morphine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
- Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale.
- Response to first drug trial predicts outcome in childhood temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Is satisfaction with pain management a valid and reliable quality indicator for use in nursing homes?
- Memorial. Ceylon Smith Lewis 1920-2001.
- Pancreatitis, medical aspects.
- Gastrointestinal motility as revealed by study of abdominal sounds.
- Recent progress in gastroenterology.
- Pressure-sensitive telemetering capsule for study of gastrointestinal motility.
- Recording of intraluminal gastrointestinal pressures by a radiotelemetering capsule.
- Fatty liver presenting as obstructive jaundice.
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Pain
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