John Ford writes about the continuing confusion surrounding opiods and pain management:
As the appropriate indications for narcotics are expanding, more doctors may be going to jail for offering such progressive care. Given the modern recognition of pain as the “fifth vital sign” not to mention the increasing medical liability assumed by not controlling it, prosecuting more doctors doesn’t seem the way to go.Medical boards and regulators need to catch up with medical science.
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If we really wish to destroy the purported scientific basis for medicine as we know it then we should include a purely and wholly subjective indication of “pain” as a vital sign. Then again, we are already headed down the pathway of junking the field with garbagecan diagnosis that have no objective measures such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, etc. We might as well throw in the chirofraud “subluxations” for the equivalent degree of scientific and objective basis that it carries.
~Criminallopath~
Sweet weeping jesus, I agree with him!
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