PT called the clinic repeatedly complaining of pain and specifically targeted the doctor who performed the surgery

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

This is such a shame, I just wonder if this surgeon told this pt prior to the surgery that the surgery would “resolve his back pain”.  Of course, no surgeon can “promise” that surgery will “correct the problem”.  Apparently the pt had reach out to the surgeon to get something to help him manage his […]

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Legalize “highway robbery” ?

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

The PBM industry started in 1969-1970 and worked for many years under contracts with insurance companies.  At some point, all the major PBM’s became licensed insurance companies and were then protected from the Sherman Anti Trust act by the McCarran Ferguson Act, which exempted insurance companies from Sherman Anti trust. Over the decades, many different […]

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Procedure after procedure to just end up bed/chair/house confined because of CDC opiate dosing guidelines ?

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Hi Steve, I’ve been putting this ofc for quite some time, but now is appropriate, I think… Here goes… I was a nurse in a cardiac unit for six years. On September 6, 1987 I was hurt at work, the day before Labor Day and three days before my twenty ninth birthday. We were short […]

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