Author: u2star
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:02 pm
| hatmaker510 wrote: |
| I’m so sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, it’s not an isolated incident. When our members have surgeries planned, we try to prepare for it in that we have an NIH paper online that we’ve shared with out members. Maybe it will help you in the future:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892816/pdf/nihms17732.pdf It’s a great article about treating acute pain in sub and methadone patients with 7 pages of references. Many of us share this with our sub docs, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. We of course cannot force them to read it, but we can offer it to them and hope they’ll be receptive. I’ve always wondered who to go to in order to try to change this. One of my ideas was the state licensing boards? Or maybe even better, the AMA? They would have jurisdiction over every doc nationwide – is that correct? I really don’t know. Someone, somewhere needs to know that there are doctors out there that are standing by watching people writhe in pain and they do nothing. I hope this paper helps you. |
Thanks for sharing this with us!