Interventional Pain Clinic

Being located at CIMS Hospital on Science City Road in Sola means we are right in the middle of everything. This part of town is always moving, but inside our Interventional Pain Clinic, things are a bit slower. We spend most of our time talking to people about where it hurts, mostly backs and knees and necks. It’s not the most cheerful job, to be honest, because people only come to see us when they’re feeling pretty bad. We have a small team here and we’ve all gotten used to the cold air conditioning that the hospital keeps running all year. The rooms are basic, just the beds and the machines we need for the injections and treatments. We don’t use a lot of big words or try to act like we’re in a movie; we just look at the scans and try to figure out how to stop the pinching or the aching. The parking around Science City Road can be a real headache, so we usually hear about that from the patients before they even tell us about their pain. We have a lot of files to keep track of and the computer system acts up sometimes, but we manage. It’s just a normal clinic in a big hospital building. We drink a lot of coffee in the breakroom and try to keep the waiting area as quiet as we can for the folks who are struggling to sit still. It’s a lot of long hours, but we’re just here doing the work like everyone else.