Although I appreciate that you must have great confidence in my clinical acumen, I hate to break it to you but I am not able to figure out what the cause of your sore throat is. See, you’ve had it for three months, have seen two ENT’s, ID, and an oral surgeon, and have gotten CT scans and cultures and blood tests out the wazoo.
Best I can offer you is a viscous lidocaine magic mouthwash. Sorry
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Logic 101 for criminals: If you commit a crime, are shot with birdshot, and then get away, guess where the police are going to go to look for you. No, not the CVS store in the tweezer aisle. No, not the Home Depot looking for a super strong magnet. If you guessed the emergency department, you’re right! Have fun picking out the pellets in lockup.
Where to draw the line between controlling a patient’s pain and being a “pill mill”? Doctor in Springfield, IL has license suspended. Now his patients are being labeled “drug seekers” and having difficulty obtaining prescriptions for their pain. As the thumb screws are tightened on physicians and their prescribing habits, I again warn everyone to be careful what they wish for.
Chef and kitchen helper in restaurant end up dead after eating stir fry with “Death Cap” mushrooms.
May not be a patient gone wild, but still a schlubb. 30 year old Dover, Delaware man hits 72 woman in head and grabs her purse – while she’s sitting in the emergency department waiting room.
So, I often blog about drug seekers (all ER bloggers do) and recently our new state narcotic database has become a formidable weapon in our armamentarium against them.
However, just as importantly, it can help people. For example, perhaps your personality is kinda whiny. Maybe you are melodramatic or demanding. If you have these attributes, you are likely to be looked at with a quizzical eye when you come in screaming for pain meds, especially when there is nothing obvious going on and your work up is negative.
A quick look on the database can show us that you haven’t had any narc prescriptions for the last year, thereby verifying your story. Of course you could have gone to another state for them of you could be buying them on the street but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and chalk up your screaming, swooning, and drama to the unfortunate personality you were born with.
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