Comments on: And you wonder why doctors are hesitant to treat pain http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ipanemahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html#comment-63839 ipanema Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are-hesitant-to-treat-pain.html#comment-63839 Besides her pain, clearly the woman is ill of something else other than what she's feeling at that time. If she's a regular, can't she reported to someone who handles such cases? Besides her pain, clearly the woman is ill of something else other than what she’s feeling at that time. If she’s a regular, can’t she reported to someone who handles such cases?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html#comment-63836 Anonymous Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:46:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are-hesitant-to-treat-pain.html#comment-63836 anon 10:58, I think your exactly right. Only once have I went to the ER with a migraine headache. When the doctor come in I was in so much pain he and I couldn't even have a conversation. He said to me "Your having too much pain for us to even talk, I'm going to give you something." I have no idea what they gave me and I didn't care as long as that pain went away. anon 10:58, I think your exactly right. Only once have I went to the ER with a migraine headache. When the doctor come in I was in so much pain he and I couldn’t even have a conversation. He said to me “Your having too much pain for us to even talk, I’m going to give you something.” I have no idea what they gave me and I didn’t care as long as that pain went away.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html#comment-63829 Anonymous Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are-hesitant-to-treat-pain.html#comment-63829 It has generally been my experience that pts in severe pain ask for "pain medicine." Even doctors, nurses, or chronic pain patients (think sickle cell disease) don't care what as long as it helps. They may have comments afterwards, but not before.<br/><br/>Pts who have secondary gain issues demand specific doses of specific drugs on their schedule. This is a very different interaction than people who are just knowlegable or otherwise empowered discussing their case with the doctor; it is about someone demanding a specific treament. It is similar to a patient demanding antibiotics for a cold; the question of "how can you abdandon me, everyone else helps me except you" is always brought up. The interaction is so fake that it almost reads like a script from a play.<br/><br/>There is a big difference between working with the health care team and trying to fool them. It has generally been my experience that pts in severe pain ask for “pain medicine.” Even doctors, nurses, or chronic pain patients (think sickle cell disease) don’t care what as long as it helps. They may have comments afterwards, but not before.

Pts who have secondary gain issues demand specific doses of specific drugs on their schedule. This is a very different interaction than people who are just knowlegable or otherwise empowered discussing their case with the doctor; it is about someone demanding a specific treament. It is similar to a patient demanding antibiotics for a cold; the question of “how can you abdandon me, everyone else helps me except you” is always brought up. The interaction is so fake that it almost reads like a script from a play.

There is a big difference between working with the health care team and trying to fool them.

]]> By: I couldn't resisthttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html#comment-63827 I couldn't resist Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are-hesitant-to-treat-pain.html#comment-63827 You can bring MRI reports, but you'd be better off with X-rays. Chronic pain shows up much more clearly on X-rays. You can bring MRI reports, but you’d be better off with X-rays. Chronic pain shows up much more clearly on X-rays.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are.html#comment-63824 Anonymous Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-are-hesitant-to-treat-pain.html#comment-63824 Well they should be hesitant to treat pain when it is so obvious that someone is faking but tell me how that is fair to people who are geniunely in pain? Or, do you just assume everyone is faking and have no concern whatsoever that you have not met with satisfactory treatment where these people are concerned?<br/><br/>Do people need to start bringing MRI reports and pictures, and all such reports when visiting an ER to prove chronic pain? Well they should be hesitant to treat pain when it is so obvious that someone is faking but tell me how that is fair to people who are geniunely in pain? Or, do you just assume everyone is faking and have no concern whatsoever that you have not met with satisfactory treatment where these people are concerned?

Do people need to start bringing MRI reports and pictures, and all such reports when visiting an ER to prove chronic pain?

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