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To: Swordmaker
unless they tested specifically for drugs , the doctors would not know about any addictions to pain killers, other than the fact that he, if true, would have been inquiring anxiously about his pain from minute one of his hospitalization....

now, Tylenol can be harmful to one's liver, but again, perhaps they checked his liver enzymes, and perhaps they did not....

you have to understand what pressure doctors , nurses and hospitals are under these days to RELIEVE ALL PAIN AND DOCUMENT IT......we have to record what the pt. says about his pain, and show what we did for it, and then how it helped or not....

no doctor is ever going to refuse his pt. pain meds. at all, even when the doctor knows he is dealing with an addict, because the legal ramifications of leaving your pt. in pain is looked at in a worse light than over prescribing, even to addicts....imo....

445 posted on 10/02/2003 12:18:21 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
"no doctor is ever going to refuse his pt. pain meds. at all, even when the doctor knows he is dealing with an addict, because the legal ramifications of leaving your pt. in pain is looked at in a worse light than over prescribing, even to addicts....imo...."

Wrong! Most doctors under prescribe pain meds for fear of undergoing audits by The DEA. Cancer patients, even terminal patients, suffer as a result.

475 posted on 10/02/2003 12:26:28 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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