That's not the way it works any more. Now patients have to see a pain management doctor once a month, and pee in a jar at least every three months to make sure he is taking the meds and not selling it.
It's an enormous and obscenely profitable branch of medicine.
That's not the way it works any more. Now patients have to see a pain management doctor once a month, and pee in a jar at least every three months to make sure he is taking the meds and not selling it.
It's an enormous and obscenely profitable branch of medicine
Amen, AMEN, AMEN
Economists call this "rent-seeking". Establish a roadblock in the supply chain, (almost always with the help of Big Government), and then demand payment to pass. Most of the medical field is addicted to it one way or another.
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When my mother died last year and was suffering from bone cancer, the morphine she needed was delivered by a messenger in a paper bag. We were shocked. My sister took delivery of it right across the threshold of my mother’s home. We didn’t even sign for it.
We put it on the table - there was liquid morphine in there, hypodermic needles, also morphine tabs.
Same for my husband when he was in pain from liver cancer six months ago. Liquid morphine was delivered to us via the hospice service - in what looked like a cough medicine bottle. I had a lot of people in the house and it could have been easily taken - if I hadn’t kept an eye on it. The bottle was 1/2 full. I administered it under my husband’s tongue with an eyedropper that was provided.
We were shocked that the medical drug system was so lax.