The most common one, I would say, of the pharmaceuticals.

These are systemic IV analgesics, OK?

Pay medications that go through a little IV line

that you will have inserted upon admission.

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And now let's get into this week's episode.

A question I get asked so often at the hospital is,

I don't want an epidural, but I do want something for pain.

What are my options?

And while epidurals are kind of the gold standard,

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