New York City To Restrict Prescription Painkillers In Public Hospital's Emergency Rooms

http://www.nytimes.com/ ^ | January 11,2013 | Anemona Hartocollis

[USNBandit]

They also accuse a lot of people in real pain of being drug seekers. I would be a lot more supportive of a three day restriction if access to doctors allowed for guaranteed access to a doctor in three days.

I still think this should be a decision made by medical directors at the hospital, not an autocratic decision.

A trend is building in this country that is alarming. The mentality for stopping the illegal use of legal products by restricting legal use for all is alarming. Drug seekers abuse prescription narcotics, restrict the access to truly sick patients. People shoot up schools, restrict access for law abiding citizens to guns. Over eaters get fat drinking soda, outlaw the sale of large bottles of soda.

[markman46]

i am talking about the same people every few days, when one hospital reject them the go to the next and the next.

[USNBandit]

I've been to the ER and seen those people. The ones the staff knows by name.

I've also been to the ER with my wife who they accused of drug seeking after a botched wrist surgery. The doc told her if she had after hours complications to go the ER. We did, and we were treated like bums off the street. As if my wife would have a complex wrist surgery done just to seek pain meds.

There are a lot of people in this country with chronic pain. Unfortunately, the current models for medicine don't really allow doctors enough time with patients to manage the pain and meds. That is some people get hooked in the first place.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Over eaters get fat drinking soda, outlaw the sale of large bottles of soda.

Recreational drug abusers mess up their lives, outlaw the sale of drugs to all.

[jayrunner]

I don’t understand why Nyorkers tolerates this overbearing elected official’s intrusion into their lives.

When I lived in NYC,there were numerous infrastructure failures and imagine they continue to this day.

He’s just another liberal who thinks God appointed him Master of the Universe.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Demonstrating yet again how liberalism and the War On Drugs go hand in hand.

[Islander7]

Tell that to the millions of people who see the ER as a walk in clinic that *never* closes and that *must* see you...

'Those' sort clogged the ER at one small hospital I worked at several years ago. Admin opened a triage area for the hang nail crowd and offered only the bare minimum of service. After a few months, it made a big difference in the work load as the regulars realized they weren't going to get a script. I'm sure some federal agency would have frowned on it.

[dforest]

This sorry assed POS has his peeps hook an air conditioner up to his car so he doesn’t have to get in a hot car in the summer.

No pain fer hizzoner Bloomberg!

NY is full of dumb stooges, they should corral this turd and tar and feather him!