Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/some-physicians-are-so-fearful-of-dea.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: THOUGHTS FROM THE HEADOChttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/some-physicians-are-so-fearful-of-dea.html#comment-58278 THOUGHTS FROM THE HEADOC Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/01/19754.html#comment-58278 So glad someone else is aware of this probem. Thanks for this post. So glad someone else is aware of this probem. Thanks for this post.

]]> By: gasmanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/some-physicians-are-so-fearful-of-dea.html#comment-58261 gasman Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/01/19754.html#comment-58261 At my last renewal of my DEA license the paperwork was lost and no certificate could be provided to my hospital in time.<br/><br/>As an anesthesiologist I found this strangely liberating, as I no longer had to go through the daily grind of being constantly under the watchful eye of someone expecting drug diversion at every turn. <br/><br/>Oddly, the watchers in the pharmacy have little oversite. The unused waste narcotics returned to the pharmacy, where they test to be certain that I'm not just handing in saline syringes, are handled and destroyed by just one pharmacist. Far more available for diversion and no oversite. At my last renewal of my DEA license the paperwork was lost and no certificate could be provided to my hospital in time.

As an anesthesiologist I found this strangely liberating, as I no longer had to go through the daily grind of being constantly under the watchful eye of someone expecting drug diversion at every turn.

Oddly, the watchers in the pharmacy have little oversite. The unused waste narcotics returned to the pharmacy, where they test to be certain that I’m not just handing in saline syringes, are handled and destroyed by just one pharmacist. Far more available for diversion and no oversite.

]]> By: MedSleuthhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/some-physicians-are-so-fearful-of-dea.html#comment-58255 MedSleuth Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/01/19754.html#comment-58255 It is so frustrating to know that the abuse of prescription painkillers is keeping them out of the hands of those who truly need them, and the hassles created for physicians are making them shy away from prescribing them at all. Relieving suffering and easing pain, aren't those big reasons why people become physicians in the first place? It is so frustrating to know that the abuse of prescription painkillers is keeping them out of the hands of those who truly need them, and the hassles created for physicians are making them shy away from prescribing them at all. Relieving suffering and easing pain, aren’t those big reasons why people become physicians in the first place?

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