Posted on 05/29/2019 6:50:51 PM PDT by Kartographer
I disagree
Not all pain clinics are scams
The control is sure tight here in Tennessee
I’m friendly with a nurse practioner who along with three other women bought a clinic from a retiring MD
They pay a Vandy internal medicine MD for oversight etc
They are by the book
Urine tests quarterly
Monthly visits
Pill counts
Cat scans and MRIs for validation
Won’t prescribe Xanax or soma
Percocet or lortab and muscle relaxers
In house trigger point and epidural steroid or tornadol injections
I go to her for colds and whatnot she can write anything a doc can
She noticed my arthritic hands and wrote a cortisone gel on the spot which is a life saver
Any violation and you’re dropped
They make what Medicare allows them to make
These girls work their butts off for around 100,000 a year
She’s a sweet beautiful southern girl with 3 kids and is not in business to profiteer or harm folks
Some people have chronic pain and nowadays any neurologist or orthopod will semf you there to an accredited pain clinic after 90 days
It’s a canard mostly now this hyperbole about pain clinics
The Wild West days are mostly over and anyone trying to beat the system will get a felony charge pretty fast
I grew up,around marine and army vets who lived the 1941-45 pacific tour at lovely places like Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Borneo and Cape Gloucester
I don’t recall emotional support dogs
Those guys made families instead
Dog on dog sounds very bully
My bulldogs were always dog aggressive
How about a comfort turkey?
I think they don’t want their pet which is technically the only child they’ll ever have in the luggage compartment
They are usually progressives
Tell me I’m lying
You can look at em
Unless it’s a seeing eye dog or bomb sniffer if it can’t fit under the seat it should not be allowed
Ban all animals from flights, these idiots are out of control. If you’re transporting an animal, you need to be driving. My wife had a college friend visit our house for a day with her pet that she was passing off as a “service dog”. The damn thing wouldn’t stop chasing my cat, even after my cat did a number on that dog’s face (dog was a total moron, no brain, no pain). Then it ran out the front door and I drove her around the neighborhood for half an hour to find it wandering the streets. The cloth service animal shirt/jacket/whatever that these people always drape over their dogs was probably stolen off a display table at a convention.
We are fellow travelers
I’ve owned pits and ABDs and my daughter has two pits and raises Malnois
I’ve got two big male uncut Rotts now and my oldest girls old chihuahua who I confess I adore ..a first me a small dog
My daughters white pit bull Axle is a peach....but king of the hill dog wise...
Most Freepers are BSC over pitbulls but there are a few of us...shibumi who died last year was one of us..
Good to see you.....some of my dogs
Doubtful but I’d be gouging eyes, grabbing balls, choking it, and anything else I could think of. My tactical pen would be in his neck or throat as far as I could push, too.
Exactly. If you need that, you’re not ready for air travel. Same for the drunks and the irresponsible. Greyhound is much more their speed.
It’s actually one of the few news sites that will let me enter. The MSM doesn’t like my ad-blocker. Maybe the MSM should knock off their annoying ads. The MSM can go suck an egg, but I digress.....
I have a cat and no way would I fly with her. She is like a very needy child.
If I were to fly with her and she was on my lap, it would be a contest as to who could take the dog’s eyes first. She apparently dislikes all living creatures.
They won’t let me bring my emotional-support .45, so I’m not too into flying these days.
If they’re all PTSD’d over that, I don’t know what the hell a dog is going to do for them but whatever. They can bond over a nice car trip.
Sorry future veteran there. Does the dog go on combat deployments with him?
I can’t even believe it exists.
Like I said, in some ways this country has gone mad.
Yep, it all comes from the same ones. I am
Yep, it all comes from the same ones.
I think part of this madness goes back to George H W Bush and the ADA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990
Going back even further to the “civil rights” laws of the 1960s. In our now liberal country, everything is a slippery slope.
People who insist on bringing their pets should be required to buy additional seats for them.
That would put a quick end to the problem, at least until the first injunction from a liberal Obama judge appears.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DOGS are with UNSTABLE PEOPLE! Stop this madness on Planes!
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