okay, but honey, sweetie, child. She refused to call the 15 other doctors I provided their contact information for her to call them … because she “didn’t think it was worth it” and “didn’t feel comfortable doing it” She refused to read my hospital discharge papers that explained my situation entirely, and ALSO provided all of my other doctors WHO WERE SPECIALISTS IN MY ILLNESS, to ask their opinion. She wasn’t restricted, she had all the proof and resources to give me the prescription. I did all the leg work for her, and she refused to even utilize it. She was NOT restricted, she was belligerent.
She was the only person I could go to in time because the specialists are an hour away from me otherwise I would have just seen the people who actually know how to do their job.
This argument is a cop-out. Do not defend someone who hates chronically ill people. Do not. She does not care about our pain, she does not care about treating us, and she is part of the very real problem of ableism [discrimination against disabled people] in the medical industry. The fact is: she simply did not care that I am in pain from a fucking surgery I just had.
IT IS NOT DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
Here’s the quickest link I could find but there’s many more:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hari-prescription-drug-crisis-cause-20170112-story.html
Denying patients pain medicine does only one thing: harm patients, it does nothing to curb OD rates or addiction rates in this country.
(#Every single dr and nurse that does this should be fired)
It’s amazing to me that most people seem to be able to understand that the war on drugs has been almost entirely a failure that has lead to making things worse by disproportionately hurting marginalized groups (mostly poor people) while only being a superficial “fix” that basically is just an exercise in looking like they are doing something.
But despite that no one can wrap their head around this applying to prescription pain killers. Everyone immediately takes at face value the idea that people who have chronic pain automatically will become drug addicts if they are given treatment for said pain.
To put into perspective for those who think that painkillers are “out of control”, last year my anesthesiologist got into a car accident. This is a doctor who literally specializes in medicating pain. My doctor was given iirc, 5 6 hour pills to last a week until his appointment for a follow up from the ER. Serious car accident he had to go to rehab for. Enough pills to last the weekend only and he is LICENSED TO PRESCRIBE SAID PILLS. So apparently the people who are writing the prescriptions can’t be trusted with them either!
But no. This isn’t like the rest of the war on drugs. It’s not like the government literally has their own shit come back saying that there has been no drop in painkiller abuse but a big spike in street drug abuse. It’s an exception.
Additional resource on the myth.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychopharmacology/opioid-analgesics-myths-and-facts
I’m not tryna invalidate the struggles people w chronic pain go through but just so you know doctors are v restricted when it comes to prescription strength painkillers bc the overprescription of them is directly linked to the heroin epidemic so
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