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Guns, salt, 16 ounce drinks and now painkillers in hospitals---Bloomberg marches on
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<blockquote data-quote="UnSafe" data-source="post: 2056726" data-attributes="member: 100"><p>Bloomburg's restricting the quantity of dispensed prescription analgesics is only part of a bandaid solution to a much larger problem, which is that the current Emergency Medical system has been corrupted by the so called "Patient Satisfaction" survey. Patients complain that their "Pain" was not taken care of adequately, and the Physicians are then pushed by hospitals and case managers to administer and prescribe more and stronger meds. After a while of being badgered and to keep up with the never ending flow of patients, the Physicians just suppress their good clinical judgement (AKA Bullsh!t meter) and essentially just give the patients what they want instead of what they need. Sure, being a Physician gives them the ability to defend what they do by babbling about "Must treat the pain" or "No one created an addict by a writing a short prescription for such meds and no one cured an addiction by refusing to write for the meds", but the body count and cost of our drug addled population speaks for itself. </p><p></p><p>Even 10 years ago, Dilaudid (About 8 times stronger than Morphine) was rarely used for other than end stage cancer related pain and big orthopaedic injuries. Now, one of Dell City's finest can stroll in to Midwest City Regional Hospital's ER, calmly complain of a "10/10" headache, and with the correct answers to the history and exam (Learned from prior visits) get 4mg of Dilaudid IV, a second dose in 2 hours and a prescription for Oxycodone on the way out (Not just picking on MWC Reg., all ERs play the game to some extent or another). It's sad to me, that such bright and talented Physicians have allowed themselves to become "Legal drug dealers" and defend their actions in the process. The Hippocratic oath isn't supposed to be twisted by hippocrats.</p><p></p><p>Ranting aside, Bloomburg's plan/ rule/ whatever, will backfire. Say your kid has a simple fracture of his upper arm on a Wednsday afternoon before the Thanksgiving 4 day weekend. It's splinted/ slung in the ER, an Ortho consultation is set up for the following Monday, all is good but OOPS! The ER is limited to a 3 day fill. So now, either you'll have to return to the ER$$ for another visit or the Ortho guy might call or fax in a second prescription. The seekers? Like Zombies, they'll just keep shopping ERs more frequently with the same old, lame assed complaints. Don't feed the bears.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UnSafe, post: 2056726, member: 100"] Bloomburg's restricting the quantity of dispensed prescription analgesics is only part of a bandaid solution to a much larger problem, which is that the current Emergency Medical system has been corrupted by the so called "Patient Satisfaction" survey. Patients complain that their "Pain" was not taken care of adequately, and the Physicians are then pushed by hospitals and case managers to administer and prescribe more and stronger meds. After a while of being badgered and to keep up with the never ending flow of patients, the Physicians just suppress their good clinical judgement (AKA Bullsh!t meter) and essentially just give the patients what they want instead of what they need. Sure, being a Physician gives them the ability to defend what they do by babbling about "Must treat the pain" or "No one created an addict by a writing a short prescription for such meds and no one cured an addiction by refusing to write for the meds", but the body count and cost of our drug addled population speaks for itself. Even 10 years ago, Dilaudid (About 8 times stronger than Morphine) was rarely used for other than end stage cancer related pain and big orthopaedic injuries. Now, one of Dell City's finest can stroll in to Midwest City Regional Hospital's ER, calmly complain of a "10/10" headache, and with the correct answers to the history and exam (Learned from prior visits) get 4mg of Dilaudid IV, a second dose in 2 hours and a prescription for Oxycodone on the way out (Not just picking on MWC Reg., all ERs play the game to some extent or another). It's sad to me, that such bright and talented Physicians have allowed themselves to become "Legal drug dealers" and defend their actions in the process. The Hippocratic oath isn't supposed to be twisted by hippocrats. Ranting aside, Bloomburg's plan/ rule/ whatever, will backfire. Say your kid has a simple fracture of his upper arm on a Wednsday afternoon before the Thanksgiving 4 day weekend. It's splinted/ slung in the ER, an Ortho consultation is set up for the following Monday, all is good but OOPS! The ER is limited to a 3 day fill. So now, either you'll have to return to the ER$$ for another visit or the Ortho guy might call or fax in a second prescription. The seekers? Like Zombies, they'll just keep shopping ERs more frequently with the same old, lame assed complaints. Don't feed the bears. [/QUOTE]
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