Posted on 01/11/2013 8:42:31 AM PST by dangerdoc
Not allowed
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“Under the new city policy, most public hospital patients
will no longer be able to get more than three days’ worth
of narcotic painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet.
Long-acting painkillers, including OxyContin, a familiar
remedy for chronic backache and arthritis, as well as
Fentanyl patches and methadone, will not be dispensed at
all. And lost, stolen or destroyed prescriptions will not
be refilled.”
Thank you, I didn’t want to step on any toes.
Sounds like you Fur Shur don’t want to get shot in New York City!
Bloomberg said people will have to suffer a little.
You won’t have to worry about about your 16 ounce soda not being big enough to wash down your pain pills.
Bloomberg is a tyrant. He latched on to the Republican popularity due to Giuliani to get elected. Then he convinced the idiot city council to remove the term limit so he could run for a third term. Then stopped being a Republican (though he never was one anyway) to become an “independent”.
He’s out of office next January. Can’t come soon enough, and I don’t even live in NY.
The natives have been streaming in for 0bamacare, as if that is their job.
It boggles the mind that hospitals have just rolled over for this lunatic mayor.
Unlike pain killers, no danger of addiction is present for these items.
I never abused it, just used it for pain management. I wish I could get it again, but the gubbimint makes it very hard or impossible.
I guess the MD's and government group people in very real pain together with pleasure seeking addicts. Too bad for me.
FMCDH(BITS)
Jus' checking out the pain!
Last year in Germany where there is Obamacare, I was supposed to have surgery at the hospital. When I checked-in they collected four of us in a room and then said we had to come back another day because of emergencies and missing staff. Right away the Turkish woman claimed “acute pain” and was allowed to stay. Some people know how to work the system. In New York I bet a lot of people are learning how to work the system.
The only people who get it are those who are addicted and pay for it on the street or pay a DR. for a bogus visit and get a prescription.
“Bloomberg said people will have to suffer a little.”
“Here is my problem with legislative medicine,” said Dr. Alex Rosenau, president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians and senior vice chairman of emergency medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Eastern Pennsylvania. “It prevents me from being a professional and using my judgment.”
I will have to disagree with Dr. Rosenau: I believe that this is a very reasonable policy.
It prevents an E.R. from dispensing more than 3 days of narcotic analgesics. It does not prevent an E.R. doctor from giving a patient a prescription for a larger supply of such a medicine, and then having the Rx filled at an outside pharmacy.
In view of the fact that most of our E.R. patients have enough money to buy liquor, smoke cigarettes, get expensive manicures, or purchase the latest designer jeans or sneakers, there is little risk of these patients will suffer for lack of medicine.
I will reluctantly agree with Mayor Yenta Bloomberg on this one.
“Bloomberg said people will have to suffer a little.”
“Here is my problem with legislative medicine,” said Dr. Alex Rosenau, president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians and senior vice chairman of emergency medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Eastern Pennsylvania. “It prevents me from being a professional and using my judgment.”
I will have to disagree with Dr. Rosenau: I believe that this is a very reasonable policy.
It prevents an E.R. from dispensing more than 3 days of narcotic analgesics. It does not prevent an E.R. doctor from giving a patient a prescription for a larger supply of such a medicine, and then having the Rx filled at an outside pharmacy.
In view of the fact that most of our E.R. patients have enough money to buy liquor, smoke cigarettes, get expensive manicures, or purchase the latest designer jeans or sneakers, there is little risk that these patients will suffer for lack of medicine.
I will reluctantly agree with Mayor Yenta Bloomberg on this one.
Nanny knows best!!!
I’m amazed how people just bow down to Bloomberg. He says “jump” and they say “how high.”
I have psoriatic arthritis and could not get through the day with etoldalac and vicoden. I am speechless that the city can just dictate this to the medical community without a thought to what patients need.
Honest to Pete, there is only one guy who scares me more than Obama when I think about him being POTUS, and it’s Michael Bloomberg. This guy must lay awake all night every night thinking about new ways to micromanage everyone else’s life. He seriously needs professional help.
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