Dr Buzz Burrell
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MBBS MRCPI FRNZCGP FDRHMNZ FFPMANZCA
Senior Medical Officer, The Auckland Regional Pain Service, NZ MBBS MRCPI FRNZCGP FDRHMNZ FFPMANZCA
Buzz graduated in London then completed General Physician training in Derbyshire before emigrating to New Zealand as a respiratory research fellow and lecturer for the University of Otago. A one-year sabbatical in rural hospital medicine and primary health care matured into eight years at Reefton on the West Coast, with occasional Chatham Islands postings, followed by four years remote rural hospital and general practice in the Pilbara of Western Australia as a solo bush doctor for a small mining town and two aboriginal communities. Buzz was voted Lecturer of the year in Dunedin 1993 and Runner up New Zealander of the year in 1997. |
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Buzz has established a semi-rural General Practice in Renwick near Blenheim; he was the GP with Special Interest in chronic pain for Nelson; and was a Regional Coordinator and senior lecturer for the University of Otago Rural Medical Immersion Programme until moving to Auckland full time. He is a Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners examiner, served a term as Chair of the College Rural Chapter, and is currently Chair of New Zealand’s General Practitioners Aotearoa.
He has completed training as a pain medicine specialist in Auckland and now works part time as a Specialist Pain Medicine Physician for The Auckland Regional Pain Service.
Buzz has published on asthma, COPD, and many topics of primary care.
He is the proud father of three beautiful daughters. He is a very slow ocean swimmer, a Harley rider, completed his first half-marathon last year, and has been known to socially enjoy a glass of Shiraz– (not all at the same time).
He has completed training as a pain medicine specialist in Auckland and now works part time as a Specialist Pain Medicine Physician for The Auckland Regional Pain Service.
Buzz has published on asthma, COPD, and many topics of primary care.
He is the proud father of three beautiful daughters. He is a very slow ocean swimmer, a Harley rider, completed his first half-marathon last year, and has been known to socially enjoy a glass of Shiraz– (not all at the same time).
Drugs and Chronic Pain - Why They Don't Work, And What We Should Do
Chronic pain historically has been treated with drugs, injections, operations, and procedures. The research and evidence on many of these are surprisingly disappointing, the socio-psycho-biological approach having evolved as an evidence-based approach for nearly 20 years. Many prescriptions do more harm than good, which would make Hippocrates turn in his grave. This presentation will explain the neurobiology behind pain, and therefore where drug intervention may help, and where and why it either doesn't help, or worse, causes harm.
