Close Up Radio Spotlights Pain Management Specialist Dr. Thomas Simopoulos

Southborough, MA – Anesthesiologists are often faced with patients suffering from severe or significant pain following surgery.

As a result, they possess the most comprehensive understanding of the neuroanatomy of pain pathways in the body, with the most experience using medications and nerve blocks to treat pain.

That’s why anesthesiology and pain management go hand-in-hand.

Dr. Thomas Simopoulos is anesthesiologist and pain management specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

In addition to his work as a pain management specialist, Dr. Simopoulos is also an expert witness, offering litigation support services to attorneys of both plaintiffs and defendants for 15 years.

“Expert witness work found me rather than I found it,” laughs Dr. Simopoulos. “What I like about the expert witness work is I just have to stay within the facts and the evidence.”

So while most of cases are standard chart reviews, there are cases that require Dr. Simopoulos to perform his own medical examination. These cases are typically complex nerve injury cases that may develop into chronic pain syndromes that at times may be diagnosed correctly or incorrectly and are difficult to treat or resolve.

“In the legal system, nerve injury related pains and chronic pains are tough to define. This creates a lot of challenges in our system. I come in as an as an expert witness to shed some light and create a direction,” says Dr. Simopoulos. “Sometimes we reach maximum medical improvement. That may not be satisfactory for either the patient or the employer, but some patients never improved adequately with their chronic pain condition.”

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