Two unrelated questions. 1) Does anyone have any luck getting a hospital to release its lab results in HL-7 format? The mix of HL-7 and PDF makes me nuts.

2) What luck do you in other areas in getting pain specialists to see patients for non-procedure generating pain issues? I would dearly love to punt my chronic pain management problems (the more so with all the controlled substance scrutiny), but have no luck.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands