Doctors Behind Bars: Treating Pain Is Now Risky Business
The obstacles to aggressive pain management.
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The NY Times article mentions that some physicians are instructing their chronic pain patients to go to more than one pharmacy. In my opinion, this violates the standard of care for the treatment of chronic pain with opioids. In fact, I consider this to be malpractice. Chronic pain patients taking opioids should get all their pain perscriptions from one doctor, and have all their prescriptions filled at one pharmacy.
Michael Rack, M.D.
Jackson, MS
There are two types of error: not giving pain meds to someone who needs them, and giving them to someone who doesn’t. Having watched my brother die of cancer, I am much more concerned about the first than the second.
Acad Ronin
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