PHARMACIST STEVE

Bureaucrats keeping changing the rules of the game and the end target ?

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   Leah, on November 21, 2015 at 11:03 am said:

   You think that is bad? I am on disability I have a subsidy rider due to lack of income with United Healthcare. First, a letter came stating 2016 would be the same:no deductible for any Rx. Now I get a letter stating, so sorry, that was an error. $78 a year. No. I don’t have it. I was hit by a car while cycling.

   Omg, on the phone and AARP states this letter is false. Too much fraud. Sent from Michael Baker Consumer Services, UNH. Can anyone say FRAUD?

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   Jenn, on November 21, 2015 at 3:43 am said:

   Dr. Ibsen, thank you for your courage. I have been following your case for awhile now and am shocked every time I read something new. As a chronic pain patient, thank you for all you have done and I am very afraid. I feel that the end game for the DEA is to make ALL pain medications illegal for anyone. Even my 68 year old father with Stage 4 Lymphoma has trouble getting his pain meds. My question for you is: if my wife(also caregiver through the VA) and I need to move to another country in order to have access to these meds, will that even be possible?
   Thank you for any answers and we will be sending positive thoughts and prayers for you and yours.
   Thank you again,
   Jenn

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     Mark Ibsen, on November 21, 2015 at 10:48 am said:

     Jenn:
     Actually, the I think United States is the best with pain treatment,
     That is the incredibly sad part that pain “fundamentalists” are trying to undo the progress in the last 15 years. It’s terror. Freedom isn’t free, and the freedom to be treated in a compassionate manner is under attack.
     The board members had a pretty impossible task: they’ve heard terrible things about me. They were given all these pages to go through. It’s taken me two years to drill down, peel the onion, and figure out what’s going on in pain. I’ve been to three conferences, I’m on five different blogs and groups, and of course most importantly my patients have taught me what’s going on with pain. These board members have none of those “advantages ”
     Dr Guggenheim is long retired. Medicine has undergone a seachange in this time. I had never met Dr. Feist before, but he is a pediatrician and the only pediatric cases that require pain management are kids with cancer.
     He was vicious about the medical records, but given what he is been given as far as data, I would be too. My records and anyone else’s records can only make sense if there seen in sequence.
     He raised a great question: what does someone do who has to see a patient of Doctor Who is no longer available, and they cannot interpret the medical records?

     Well, I’m quite familiar with that also: the board of medicine suspended Dr. Christianson’s license and his records were completely unavailable. There were 800 Opiate refugees created by that action. Doctors across the state refused to see Dr. Christianson’s patients they were completely abandoned. I treated the patients who presented to me, as any compassionate emergency physician would.
     I could see these patients were in acute pain, and acute withdrawal. Chronic pain patients withdraw when their opiates are taken away. I had no medical records to refer to all I can do is ask the patient their history, and consult the Prescription Drug registry, which I did.
     So I am quite familiar with the hypothetical dilemma that Dr. Feist presented. I have lived it

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   Mark Ibsen, on November 20, 2015 at 7:45 pm said:

   I just may.
   I cannot see where the BOME will ever let go of me.
   They are wrong.
   So they will continue to be wrong.
   And
   I will not be able to thrive under their thumb.
   Only the BOME could railroad me, and claim its “for the protection of the citizens of montana”

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   Leah, on November 20, 2015 at 6:40 pm said:

   Leave this country! Nazis here!

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