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From the Executive Medical Director, Dr. Bergman, M.D. It’s hard to believe that it is going on three years since I have been at Bay Recovery as its Executive Medical Director. During this period of transformation and change I can’t say that there haven’t been bumps along the way. But the overriding satisfaction and gratification for me is in witnessing the extraordinary recoveries made by numerous individuals who, quite frankly, I didn’t think we’d be able to help. Many patients, with their combined ever-cycling and reinforcing problems of chronic pain and addiction entrapping them in a horrible state of suffering and dysfunction, have come to us, often from providers who essentially have given up on them as being untreatable; I have witnessed similarly amazing transformation and change. From the young woman who came to us after having spent the prior three years in a state mental hospital with severe psychiatric illness, chronic pain and multiple addictions, virtually given up by her family as well as the State, to another individual literally unable to walk because of multiple muscular-skeletal injuries, surgeries and decades of pain with associated addiction to narcotics, I have witnessed the almost miraculous capacity for such individuals to recover. To see such people leave Bay Recovery not only walking, but functioning well, managing their pain and their addictions, essentially their lives, in effective and meaningful ways, is all I need to feel tremendous satisfaction. It’s my privilege to be part of the Bay team, an apparent life saving, last resort for many of the patients we are entrusted to treat.
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