Although we haven’t met we do know some of the same people. I recently have had issues over something that seems to be near and dear to your heart with regard to pain management. I also downloaded one of your articles on this subject “Taking EMS into the future”. The issue is treating patients with abdominal pain, specifically those experiencing peritoneal symptoms (abdominal pain) with a diagnosis of appendicitis. I have had very good anecdotal success in using versed by itself to accomplish very good pain relief. I do understand that versed is not a tradiotnal analgesic, however I also understand that if you treat the cause of a patients’ pain directly, you should get a desirable response and effect from that. Do you know of any articles or research that have address using benzodiazepines for treatment of acute pain / abdominal pain?