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A call for more handicap accessible options for homeless patients in Rhode Island

Cara Zimmerman, MD
Policy
November 14, 2020

“I’ve been left out here to die ever since my legs were cut off,” he said joylessly.

He was a gruff, elderly man, sharp as a tack, bundled in tattered blankets. His below-knee amputations were tucked away in his cramped wheelchair. This man had been street homeless for many years, his primary residence being a dangerous park. He was often attacked, robbed, or pushed out of his wheelchair onto his face, …

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A call for more handicap accessible options for homeless patients in Rhode Island

A call to increase the availability of the Butrans patch

Cara Zimmerman, MD
Conditions
November 20, 2019

Janelle had overdosed 32 times.

Fentanyl coursed through her veins as she was given naloxone (Narcan) for the 32nd time in the ER, from the police, from a bystander. She could never get off of fentanyl. It had made her feel warm and numbed her from the trauma and horrors she had grown accustomed to. When she would wake up in the hospital, sore and discombobulated, she would beg for help. She …

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A call to increase the availability of the Butrans patch

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