“They were told “I will not agree to let you be discharged unless you agree to sign up for taking the prescription.””
Making up stories I see. Or just repeating them mindlessly.
I have to tell you it was something on the radio. I told the truth about what I heard.
I did not say I thoroughly investigated the background, veracity and common practice statistics. For whatever reason the hospital policy was to protect themselves from some kind of complaint or lawsuit, possibly. (Or the person I heard on the news feature was wrong.)
Hospitals my wife and sister-in-law were in last year do the opposite: No you don’t need opioids, see how you do with Motrin,Advil, etc. Larger dosages but still NSAIDS.
The feature had people’s experiences with surprise addictions and then this guy who said he was supposed to take the amount for that discharge day, and then he could use the Rx if he was in severe pain. They may have had many people bothering them soon after discharge. Who knows.
Another was a family MD who stopped freely giving opioids but used to because doctors had been accused of having minimal educational training in pain reduction (that’s when the scale of 1-10 for “how much pain are you in now?” was getting under way. They were said to be perceived as insensitive to listening to a patient in pain. Now he doesn’t give unless absolutely necessary for short time.
If it’s like “don’t believe everything you read in the papers” replaced by “don’t believe what you hear on the radio news stories” then I’m sorry to have mentioned it.
The “repeating mindlessly” remark does apply to me a lot.
I’ll try not to repeat rumor and gossip style stories but then how will I fit in on the internet?