As the physicians who enable this charade should be. By the same token they should suffer consequences for their opiate prescription frenzy and the latest scam, medical marijuana.
The pain management business is really good for doctors. Easy money. Docs around here are closing their offices to join pain management clinics masquerading now as wellness centers.
I hope they enjoy living with their money. I couldn’t live with myself for having squandered my education and honor no matter how good the money is.
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