Patient of pain doctor under investigation: ‘Now we are all treated like criminals, dopeheads
From the article:
The doctor is under investigation for fraud, forgery, dangerous prescribing and violating his probation. The state has identified eight former patients of Hedrick’s who have died of overdoses.
Now, former patients of Hedrick’s say other local physicians refuse to treat them.
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I know how Mr. Jackson feels, the same thing happened to me and all of my Pain Specialist pain patients when he found out he had kidney cancer back in September of 2010, 3 days later he passed away. I did volunteer work for him for 8 years moderated our website and advocating for others in chronic pain plus mailing out the Lapel pins when a person became a member. What was part time volunteer work turned in to a full time thing. My phone was ringing about 6 times a day from people looking for pain relief and I received about 10 emails a day. My name and phone number where on this website. I had an extensive background check to make sure who I was helping truly suffered from chronic pain.
When my doctor passed away it was sudden and people where flying in from other states expecting a appointment. He too was cash pay only because of him not getting paid from insurance companies and getting paid half from Medicare.
When he became cash pay only he dropped all of his Medicare patients, that was harsh but reality when a hard working doctor cant get paid what he is due. So I don’t blame him for going cash pay after seeing forms from Medicare and what they paid him compared to what he asked for.
All chronic pain sufferers need a backup plan , you all know this in case of a emergency like the doctor passing away. I began placing most of his pain sufferers with new pain docs. here in the city I live and all out of state pain sufferers went to a Pain doc. in California.
There was a nice female Pain Specialist that owed my doctor a favor for getting her out of trouble not long before he passed away and she wrote a months worth of meds to all his pain patients that went to see her. Thing was getting word to all 300 patients. She didn’t charge anyone anything, this gave me more time to place my doctors patients with other pain docs. it was a nightmare but I worked my way through it in 2 months time.
Then it came time for me to find a new pain doc. and every doctor I went to said they could not take me because the doctor I was seeing was a high dose prescriber. After all I did for others I couldn’t find myself a new Pain Specialist.
One doctor finally took me in but cut my medications in half, I had no other choice and things went okay for 3 years then he let me go for reasons unknown to me.
This is the price all chronic pain sufferers must pay and things have become much worse since 2010. I feel bad for all of Dr. Hedrick’s pain patients, I don’t know the all the facts on this doctor but innocent people that suffer from chronic pain should not have to pay the ultimate price. Now days I keep to myself and shouldn’t even be writing this but the hell with it.
People forget what you said to them and what you’ve done, but people never forget how you made them feel.
What happened to treating patients like PEOPLE? Record your interactions with your Doctors. Check your state laws but if it comes to a lying doc or pharmacist…at least YOU can DEFEND YOURSELF. Sad state of health care.
Add me to the mix , this just happen to me on Long Island New York … Can you help me ?
Damn.. This is TORTURE is spreading people! This will be in YOUR state Soon!!
I am so glad that some patients are speaking OUT but we need MORE of YOU!
HUMAN Rights are being spoken about with WHO. (World Health Org) for world SUFFERING… But what about the USA?? Did they forget about their own people??
When is the American Gov. going to listen and understand that OUR own Citizens are being treated POORLY and are being FORCED into suffering?
Because OUR GOV Officials have ALLOWED the DEA to attack our compassionate doctors, pharmacies and the wholesale distributors!
This ENTIRE Prescription drug Witch Hunt needs to be stopped!! One size of medications DOES NOT fit ALL PATIENTS! Many patients are suffering because they have been denied care and medicine.
“Thanks to serious Advocates like Pharmacist Steve”, The public is being informed. Given ideas on what actions to take to help themselves.
But?? WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO ACT! PLEASE… start calling YOUR news stations, newspapers and to go SEE Your state and Federal representatives FACE to FACE!!