Posted on 01/14/2011 12:38:49 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
A doctor that I know became a pain pill dispenser. It usually happens with doctors who aren’t very good at what they do. The addicts know which doctor to hit. Even worse, the doctors tend to hire nurses that fall for sob stories.
It isn’t a pain problem. It’s an addiction problem.
Don't take it personally Lurker. GeronL is on a greased-lightning roll today. I can't keep up with the guy either.
I've just poured myself a brandy and am going to kick back and watch him work...
Why the hell would anyone entertain the medical profession now?
Until Obamacare is repealed, I would consider just going Klingon on the entire population, and let the sick die.
I know I'd rather die than have a government employee with a scalpel hovering over me. If my condition didn't kill me, the felony conviction of manslaughter would.
lol.
Subsidized dependency.
“ER doctors have been passing out Vicodin and Percoset like small packs of M&M’s for YEARS. That has to stop. and I think it finally is slowing down.”
Perhaps the Chicago-based JCAHO, and their ever-evolving accreditation hot button issues, just might have had something to do with the ER pain tragedy.
You sure about that? What would you prescribe for broken bones, burns, infected feet, and the innumerable painful maladies that require pain management.
Let's see, we could tell them to take Naprosyn, Tylenol or Motrin. If that doesn't work maybe something along the lines of Darvocett (which is off the market). Vicodin, Lortab or Percocett might work.
If ER doctors fail to address the 'pain" needs of a patient, it's reportable to the state and hospital administrators. If he prescribes too much, it's reportable to the state and hospital administrator.
Neat, huh? ER docs hate drug seekers as much as ambulance chasers. They're a distraction and take time, resources and personnel away from sick patients.
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My wife is an ER nurse at a rural hospital here in middle TN. A very real cause of why granny gets the meds is Medicare. When medicare decided that what they pay the hospital is based in part on satisfaction surveys from the patients, nurses are told to give them whatever they want (tests that arent needed) and docs give them any meds they ask for. And some docs will write the scrips just to get them out of the way. The addicts learn who the "candyman" is, and what car he drives. My wife knows, depending on what doctor is on, how busy her day is going to be before it starts.
Jeez! I need to find some of those doctors!
My doctor is pretty darned tough! When I told him I really wasn’t feeling well, like passing out, he told me that I should “tough it out.” 3 days later, I was in the ER, and spent the next 2 months in the hospital, the first month on IV antibiotics.
I have Crohns disease, and was on Prednisone for nearly 25 years. I’m now off of it, but where I had some arthritis in my knees before, well, let me just say that I now hurt in places that I didn’t know I had places. I can’t find a Dr that will give me a Rx for vicodin, something that I think I need on occasion to help me sleep when my knees start aching so badly that it wakes me up in the middle of the night. I can’t take the stuff during the day, since it makes me loopy. But once or twice a week, it would be nice to get a full nights sleep.
I take about 2400mg of Ibuprofen a day, and it just barely takes the edge off the pain.
Mark
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