“>>I’ve got a question: Nine people, or nine identities?<<
That is exactly what I was thinking. :)”
I’m an RN in Phoenix, Az. Believe me, this stuff happens.
we have a girl out here, for example, who goes to the ER every week or so, attempting to get admitted. She frequents various hospitals and gets into them all the time. We see her often at our hospital throughout the year.
It’s all about drugs. She gets ‘high’ in the hospital with complaints of abdominal pain. Gets discharged with a prescription for percocet or something, goes out on the street and sells it, then readmits for another prescription.
For real. And btw, I guess I’m not allowed to mention her color. Well, it’s not unfrequent that her race has a not a few of these types.
I can’t imagine what the ER’s are like in the NY or elsewhere. Nightmare.
The law protects her right to do this crap.
This is where a national pharmacy data base system would come in handy. A person like that would set off warning bells with a system that tracks a persons prescriptions and can tell when someone is scamming the ERs for prescription drugs to sell on the street.
Some provices in Canada have that. It has really cut down on abusers and prescription drug trafficing and abuse.
I have a relative that was pulling something similar several years back by going to various doctors for different made up ailments to get pills. A doctor confronted him on it. The relative left in a huff and he didn’t get the prescription he wanted. I’m surprised that the hospitals would continue giving the pills out to the woman you described if they know what she’s up to.
Eventually they got arrested for drug/prescription fraud.
After several turns in the prison system for repeated offense, my brother ended up eating dirt one night when he got too high and came after the police with a few knives in his hands. Plastic knives.
Sad ending. I don't blame the cops. What were they supposed to do with a clearly violent person charging at them around 3am. 3 bullets and it was over.