Comments on: Painkiller use exploding http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79338 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79338 oh PLUEEZE! first the JACHO pundits require every ed to fill in the smiley face for pain as a vital sign and then they wonder why it is addressed/abused/overused. If I am required to address pain as a separate vital sign by the regulators guess what I'm going to use.. PAIN MEDS!!! What a concept, bad regulation results in bad medicine. oh PLUEEZE! first the JACHO pundits require every ed to fill in the smiley face for pain as a vital sign and then they wonder why it is addressed/abused/overused. If I am required to address pain as a separate vital sign by the regulators guess what I’m going to use.. PAIN MEDS!!! What a concept, bad regulation results in bad medicine.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79326 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79326 No it is real. Pill mill clinics around here are cranking out prescriptions like crazy. What is really aggravating is that some of these folks present to ER's for detox, get detoxed at taxpayer expense, and the prescribing doctor is never informed that they were identified as an abuser--so there is no barrier to them going right back and getting back on the "Holy Trinity" of xanax, soma, and methadone. When they do go back, and come in for detox again, do you think the detoxing doc reports the prescribing doc to the medical board? Not on your life.<br/><br/>The medical profession is dying from the synergism of greed and cowardice. No it is real. Pill mill clinics around here are cranking out prescriptions like crazy. What is really aggravating is that some of these folks present to ER’s for detox, get detoxed at taxpayer expense, and the prescribing doctor is never informed that they were identified as an abuser–so there is no barrier to them going right back and getting back on the “Holy Trinity” of xanax, soma, and methadone. When they do go back, and come in for detox again, do you think the detoxing doc reports the prescribing doc to the medical board? Not on your life.

The medical profession is dying from the synergism of greed and cowardice.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79283 Anonymous Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79283 I doubt it. I don't know any doc's who regularly prescribe pain meds. It seems to me they would rather leave you suffering than take care of real pain, so just who is writing for all these narcotics anyway? I agree that it is probably from an increase in price more so than anything else. I doubt it. I don’t know any doc’s who regularly prescribe pain meds. It seems to me they would rather leave you suffering than take care of real pain, so just who is writing for all these narcotics anyway? I agree that it is probably from an increase in price more so than anything else.

]]> By: Donnahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79276 Donna Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79276 Somebody else is consuming my share! Somebody else is consuming my share!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79275 Anonymous Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/painkiller-use-exploding.html#comment-79275 Is this a matter of selling more pills, or just increasing the prices of meds. The inflation rate of EVERYTHING in pharmacies is truely amazing. These medications have been around for many, many years-they should cost less, not more. <br/>Jeff Rosenberg Is this a matter of selling more pills, or just increasing the prices of meds. The inflation rate of EVERYTHING in pharmacies is truely amazing. These medications have been around for many, many years-they should cost less, not more.
Jeff Rosenberg

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