With the government drug laws and state medical boards opioid reform, chronic pain sufferers are being undertreated, mistreated, or flat out NOT treated. Many have resorted to suicide to end their suffering in the wake of "absent" or "unavailable" physicians.
I believe doctors are in fear - fear of their licenses pulled. A DEA investigation to a physician is the equivalent of an IRS audit, times a hundred, and add an anxiety attack, a rectal probe, and a root canal.
Who can blame them? Their livelihood is at stake. You know who can blame them? Other doctors who are standing up for their patients!
Doctor Neil Jobalia can blame them. This doctor stood up for what he believed in - giving patients quality of life. His license was revoked. Where are the other doctors enraged at the government telling them how to practice medicine? Shame on you!
Do you feel like a puppet? Do you feel your hands tied behind your back? Well, that's nothing compared to the constant chronic pain thousands upon thousands of Americans have each and every hour of the day. That's nothing compared to the U.S. veteran that suffers chronic, irretractable back pain from botched surgeries - now going through the horror of withdraw from pain killers he's been taking for fifteen years. No warning. No weaning or tapering. Just cutoff from the medicine that kept him on his feet, able to work. Now he is bedridden.
Thank you #thomaskline M.D. for standing up for #patientsnotaddicts and writing stories such as:
Thank you Dr. #markisben for standing beside your patient, advocating for decent, humane treatment. Thank you #maiaszalavitz , reporter for writing the article:
What is happening is wrong! It is inhumane! It is malpractice.
Chronic pain sufferers are taking their own lives! Who will make this right? This misapplication of trying to fix the overdose, drug epidemic is killing people.
WHO WILL FIX THIS? #presidentdonaldjtrump?
~lo-lo