This doctor used the analogy of you don’t wait until you run out of gas before you buy some.. I got a “new ride” a month ago and on my return trip from the FL BOP special committee meeting last week in Orlando… I had been on the interstate for several hours and was needing to get gas soon.. as I exited the interstate to a four lane state hwy for my final leg home.. I knew that there was a large truck stop at the interchange.. Being the tech nerd that I have always been.. my new ride has all those modern day high tech options.. I was down to abt 1/8 of tank and the in dash computer said that I had 30-40 miles to empty and I knew that even when it indicated ZERO MILES TO EMPTY .. that I had at least 2 gals in the tank.. or I had 10% of the tank capacity left. As I rolled off the interstate, up pops on the in dash video screen “YOU ARE GETTING LOW ON FUEL.. DO YOU NEED ME TO FIND YOU A PLACE TO GET FUEL ? YES/NO ”
Imagine that.. my car … did not want me to run out of fuel… this car cared more about my well being than apparently this OB/GYN cared about this patient’s well being. I guess that we can now officially declare that many in our healthcare system have LESS EMPATHY about their pt’s well being… than the artificial intelligence in my car has about the car’s driver. If it hasn’t been clear before.. it is now… our healthcare system is IN THE CRAPPER !
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The cars are smarter than patients. Forget pain meds for a moment. I can’t begin to tell you how many people show up at the pharmacy counter at night or on weekends to refill their BP or other Maintance meds they have zero refills left and try contacting the prescriber after hours. We are allowed to give advances etc but it’s a PIA and you have to do double work, double labels, double vials, double everything but no double pay.
My doctor said if I am using my pain meds as she prescribed them then I am using them too often
Does this make sense to anyone if so could you explain it to me?
Makes no sense. Ask your doc to explain. If she can’t explain, ask the licensing board to explain. You must be your own advocate. If docs instructions do not make sense, report them.
Amen!
Having a somewhat similar go around with urology and stones currently…my supposedly easily passable small ones don’t seem to pass according to what the “guidelines expect’ And they can’t understand, while several in the kidney may look ‘stable” to them because they are just sitting there….they aren’t to me…they will move at ANY time without much warning, so I would like to have the meds on hand and avoid the ER. (which is really just an expensive visit for a morphine shot)