The BAD OUTCOME that denial of care can cause


For some reason some of the war of words on certain sections of the web jarred up some old memories.., This is a article that I clipped out of a pharmacy professional journal – years ago…

I could not even find this on my computer, I had to go back to paper files to find it..  That means that is at least 30 years old..

This was a bad decision back then and no less a bad decision today, but pharmacists appear to continue to make such bad decisions now.

Here is recent court ruling regarding a “bad decision” by a practitioner that ended up with a chronic pain pts that had been a paraplegic and wheel chair confined for 10 yrs .. committing SUICIDE and the pt’s estate was awarded SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS

https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/22/her-husband-died-by-suicide-she-sued-his-pain-doctors-a-rare-challenge-over-an-opioid-dose-reduction/

 

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