Disgusting.
How is it that no patient, no family member, no other doctor, no cops, no one at all in that town noticed this? I’m not trying to blame the victims here, but how can a doctor do this and get no complaints?
Opioid purchases connected to Temponeras by week
In a single week in May 2010, she ordered 37,900 doses of oxycodone. Assuming 4 doses per day (high), that’s enough for 1353 weeks. It was hard to find good data, but it seems that a normal prescription is for less than a week. So that would mean that she was writing prescriptions for 1353 people or more. Assuming a 5 day work week, 8 hours per day, that would be 270 prescriptions per day, 33 per hour. 2 minutes per patient.
Nope. No red flags here. /s
I’m sure the local pharmacists noted the doc’s prescribing habits.
THE PHARMACYS are also suspect here...
when you get a script for even like 200, the pharmacy calls around to get that many pills.
For a small town to have to dispense that many pills, the CHAINs are complicit. And if they don’t have chain drugstores there, then wherever that pharmacy orders from is also complicit.