Under treating pain and why there is no reason for this.
In 1991, a North Carolina jury awarded $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the family of Henry James, a nursing home patient who died a painful death from terminal metastatic prostate cancer…
Every year thousands of patients suffer needlessly, over an extended period of time because of ignorance and stupidity.
You have to wonder why this is happening, there are so many things that happen in the name of the war on drugs, but in reality this has become a war on the people.
There are dozens of cases where people who have terminal illness have had to go to the street to obtain pain medication, imagine that suffering from pain knowing you are dieing and then being arrested for purchasing street drugs because you cannot get a prescription for pain medication.
It seems like a nightmare, but for too many people it is a reality.
The painful truth is that some people report that it is easier and cheaper to obtain pain medication on the street than it is to go to a doctor and get it legally.
It is evil, because they know a few things about the DEA and how the war on Drugs has decimated the population of prescribing doctors, thousands of doctors licenses have been allegedly revoked by medical boards, often run by under educated doctors, that no longer practice medicine and who may not be professional at all.
Now you might have to wonder about how this could happen in America, well just watch the headlines, or better yet, do a search on the internet,
The jury found that a nurse’s refusal to administer the opioid analgesics necessary to relieve Mr James’s pain, on the rationale that he would become addicted, constituted a gross departure from acceptable care. Significantly, no disciplinary action was forthcoming for either the nurse or the facility.
You know this is horrible, Why is this allowed to go on in a nation where we are supposed to be free, people cannot get medication because of the war on drugs has become the war on the people.
Because it is easier to put people in jail than it is to put dangerous drug dealers in jail.
Doctors find it easier to pay a lawsuit off then to risk their license, being revoked.
Think about that, if you find your self in a desperate situation, you or someone you love might have to suffer because a doctor is afraid of prescribing a opioid analgesic, they are afraid of the medical board and the DEA.
They are right to be afraid, but should America have to suffer because of the paranoia, of a few people?
In 1998, William Bergman was admitted to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, California, in severe pain. Dr Wing Chin became his physician. Important details surrounding his 5-day hospitalization are in dispute between the Bergman family and those who cared for him. The hospital records indicate that at some point each day Mr Bergman’s pain was rated between 7 and 10 on a 10-point pain intensity scale, 10 being the worst pain imaginable. On the day of his discharge, a pain level of 10 appears in the medical record. Although a definitive diagnosis was not reached, a chest radiograph, combined with a long history of smoking, was strongly suggestive of lung cancer. Mr Bergman declined further tests, wishing to go home and receive hospice care. He died within a week of discharge.
Cases like these are beginning to be the normal mode of operation.
