Pain medicine

Description of the services The clinic will consult and treat all patients with pain as their primary disease or as a significant symptom of another disease process. This includes post-injury and post-surgical pain, persistent pain after injury or surgery, pain associated with cancer or chronic disease states.

The clinic will be multidisciplinary with specialists from Anaesthesia, Psychological Medicine, Neurology and others
This clinic DOES NOT provide services for

Patients actively being treated by other pain clinics or doctors specialising in pain medicine.
GP Investigations to be performed Especially with complex long-standing cases, it is requested that the referral letter includes an up-to-date list of medicines with a list (including contacts) of all health care professionals involved and a list of all treatments tried/performed whether successful or not.
It will also increase efficiency if you send reports at least of all investigations that have been performed.
Cost No charge for Medicare card holder, Veteran Affairs, TAC or Work cover patients. A charge does apply for Patients ineligible for Medicare
No patients are charged out of pocket expenses
Where Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin Campus
When Wednesday 8:00 am - 12 noon
Staff

By referring into the clinic you will be referring to one of the following practitioners;

Clinic Head - Professor Colin S Goodchild

  • Dr John Monagle
  • Dr Colin Goodchild
  • Dr Barry Slon
  • Dr Deborah Devonshire
  • Dr Athula Polonowita
  • Dr Victor Gordon
  • Dr Athula Polonowita
  • Dr Ray Chan
External referral process

T: 9594 3086
F: 9594 6263
Internal referral process  
Last updated and approved March 2010
Clinic Number 229M

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