Primary care physicians often are the first to treat patients who experience pain. These doctors (e.g., family practitioners, internists, pediatricians) play an important role in pain management, and often work with pain management specialists as part of a medical team.ain medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of pain. Pain doctors specialize in the management of pain as a symptom of disease (eudynia) and primary pain disorders (maldynia).
Iodine is used to prevent iodine deficiency and its consequences, including goiter. It is also used for treating a skin disease caused by a fungus (cutaneous sporotrichosis); treating fibrocystic breast disease; preventing breast cancer, eye disease, diabetes, and heart disease and stroke; and as an expectorant.
Likely Effective for... 1  Iodine deficiency. Taking iodine supplements, including iodized salt, is effective for preventing and treating iodine deficiencies. 2  Radiation exposure. Taking iodine by mouth is effective for protecting against exposure to radioactive iodides in a radiation emergency. 3  Thyroid conditions.