PHARMACIST STEVE

This is a post from another closed FACE BOOK page for chronic pain pts. It describes a chronic pain pt’s interaction with her prescriber.  This is just another example of why all chronic pain pts should do a audio/video recording with all interactions with healthcare providers.  While filing a complaint with the Medical Licensing board would probably do little more than get the pt’s discharged… HOWEVER, sharing such a verbal abuse by a prescriber with the legal dept of the pt’s insurance company… just might get the prescriber REMOVED from the insurance company’s physician network. That would make  the prescriber as a “out of network” prescriber and most likely cause the prescriber to loose a lot of pts in her practice.  No one could be assured that a person capable of such  verbal abuse…. that it could take turn into PHYSICAL ABUSE.  I suspect that an insurance company … who was made aware of such a prescriber in their network and did nothing… could have some liability to continue to allow such a prescriber to remain in their network.

Yesterday was THE WORST day I have had in such a long time, I took my boss whose is a family friend with me to my last pain management appointment to be my advocate. Well she upped my meds instead of taking away , it was only three but I figured it was progress.
So he wanted to come with me again and she had told him she wanted to know if it helped me a bit more at work. So yesterday , I went in and I told the office girl I’m waiting for my boss , she said ok . So then after doing vitals and medical history and all that I went into the 2nd room where my dr would come for the last half of the visit. I told her that my boss and advocate was with me . OMG she went ape on me , and asked me why I needed a advocate ? I said because he has seen me dealing with this since the day it happened and watches me suffer . She yelled at me “what suffering “? Then yelled that I couldn’t bring him and at that time he had knocked and opened the door to come in . She screamed at him to go and get out and I do not want you here . So he was horrified . She then told me that this was my last appointment and yelled at me over and over “what do you want ?! ” more pills ?? What do you want ?! So I said “please stop your scaring me “.
So I had to raise my voice at her and I said ” I just want to know why your doing this with my meds and what your plan is for my care “.
I explained to her that I was going to be a whole lot busier at work because of holidays and could we please add one more to make it three a day?? She yelled “no “! Then went on a rant about if I wanted another dr go find one and how no other dr would not give my meds and that she was done so she threatened again to drop me. I told her that I have a right to an advocate and that I needed kindness from her . I wish like hell I had recorded that visit .
She said verbatim ” Dr’s shouldn’t be kind or compassionate it’s just business and it doesn’t matter what the patent feels”. My jaw hit the ground.
So I had to clam her down and explain that I did not want another dr and that I needed to keep coming to her so to please quit telling me that this was my last visit.
I was so upset and traumatized by her , I was shaking and almost had a panic attack which I haven’t had in like 15 yrs or more. She just verbally attacked me. She also said that my pain medication levels were way too high compared to the morphine limit for the cdc. After her yelling at me she just said she’d lose her license if she gave me more and that she couldn’t. I have had one other time where she yelled at me and I literally had to about get on my knees to beg to get her to write my script.
I had no desire to piss her off and told her that . She also told me if I worked over 40 hrs she’d drop me because she is not in the business of helping my pain if I’m just going to over do it and cause myself more pain . That visit gave me nightmares . Even the pharmacists I go to were concerned about me because when I walked in the store I was pale and shaky and they thought I had been attacked.

I’m stuck with Dr because I cannot afford to be cash pay and my insurance told me because of HMO that I would have to drop my pcp and her before I could find another dr. Also I can not complain to anyone higher up because she is private practice. So for now I’m stuck.
I just am glad for what lil I get and even if I went elsewhere who is to say I could get a dr who will write for me? I had already been black balled from my ex pain management dr due to him insisting I have a surgery that would’ve caused me unrelenting pain and was unethical to do in the first place. So my dr made up something and dropped me. Yes , yesterday was horrific and I felt utterly violated but she didn’t taper anymore.