Re: Re: Blood Pressure and Pain

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That's a good opening for a response such as... " No..I'm not an MD but I am the

patient and I have a better sense of what's going on with me then you do...and

being an MD doesn't mean you know all about pain. It is it's own specialty.

Too many don't want to deal with it and so go around effective treatment and I'm

trying to figure out where you are coming from. "

.....now I'm not sure if I'd have the guts to say that...it would depend on

what's going on at the time but if I had nothing to lose with a doctor...heaven

knows how much trouble I'm gonna let my mouth get me into.

I've seen some doctors who should NEVER call themselves MD's and I have a story

or two about that. They have the license because they passed a states

board...but do they have the heart to be an MD? In the case of pain...who's

butt is the doctor trying to save...his own imagined problems with DEA people or

his patient?

Saying stupid stuff like " Who's the MD? " raises a red flag with me. It's

intimidating. When someone tries to intimidate with his so called position in

life...then I have serious doubts.

I've nursed many an intern on his or her way to being a real doctor...and they

are human...some are impossible and some have the " Heart " . Some are above it

all and some really do try to feel what the patient does. There are a lot of in

betweens...but being an MD does not give anyone the right to stand above it all

and use it as a club.

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> Subject: Re: Blood Pressure and Pain

> To: Hugs-N-Pain

> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 10:54 AM

> Believe me, I have thought about a large group of people

> coming

> together to fight this for years! How about every time I

> have to

> bite my lip to keep from telling off another smug and

> conceited

> doctor.! Or all the times I tried to be

> " assertive " with my doctor,

> only to be told I wasn't an M.D. and do as I was told.

> LOL! Before

> Louisville I used to carefully screen my doctors when I

> wasn't

> traveling. We all have our horror stories, right?

>

> Mmm..we have a nurse, pointing toward Lotacats. I was a

> Homeschool

> Advocate for the years my own children were of school age.

> I am also

> a writer, and did work as a newswriter, eons ago. Any other

> takers on

> this long road? I DO remember when I was an advocate we had

> to do

> endless research, and know exactly what we were talking

> about, as

> well as emassing hundreds (in this case we're talking

> hundreds of

> thousands) of cases of abuse and neglect. It becomes your

> life, but

> then isn't that what we do now?

>

> I believe if we don't do something soon, it will

> eventually become

> almost impossible to get the help we need. But then again,

> isn't it

> already?

>

> Jeanne

>

>

>

>

> >

> > Mine didn't get that high but enuff to scare me

> into action. I was

> so fortunate to have had the PA who acted so promptly and

> professionally.

> >

> > What I'd like to know is...do we have any legal

> recourses. Anybody

> in first year medical school would know that pain raises

> blood

> pressure and high blood pressures cause strokes and heart

> problems.

> I mean...that is serious stuff.

> >

> > Is this case I see a case of negligence. I'm not

> a law-suit-happy

> person by a long shot but by the same token they help keep

> some

> people on their toes. If someone is negligent by acts of

> omission,

> can you go after them?

> >

> > Also...who is going to take away a doctors license who

> treats

> pain. You have a history and treatment...you are not

> someone just

> off of the streets. I think it's a lot of hooey for

> someone to say

> they will loose their license over pain treatment unless

> they really

> stupid.

> >

> > I think asking this doctor who would take the license

> and then

> contacting those people yourself as to why you must be put

> in danger

> due to threatening doctors...and make it loud and clear.

> >

> > We won't get changes unless we make a big fat

> fuss. Ask her who is

> going to remove her license and where to get a hold of them

> for more

> information...that may call her bluff if there is one.

> >

> > A blood pressure that high is dangerous and a doctor

> leaving you in

> danger because they afraid for their license? She should

> be afraid

> if she doesn't treat you properly to get that blood

> pressure down.

> >

> > I think we need to be firm about being given blood

> pressure meds

> for blood pressure caused by pain and that is also a misuse

> of

> drugs.

> >

> > That emergency Percocet dropped it like a hot

> rock...and my follow

> up with my doctor is keeping it within reason. This

> morning it was

> 116/66. Much more like it. It's between 150/80 and

> 116/66. Not too

> bad.

> >

> > I think these are good questions to ask those in the

> know...and

> never let another doctor use it to be negligent.

> >

> > Information is one our best weapons against this type

> of thing.

> Telling these stories to the people who give out the

> license may be

> interesting.

> >

> > As an X nurse...I can't see anyone doing that

> without being called

> on negligence.

> >

> > Lotacats

> >

> > Express Chronic Pain Awareness

> > http://www.cafepress.com/lotacatspix/5815010

> >

> > Lotacatsfunpix.com

> > http://www.lotacatsfunpix.com/

> >

> > Deviantart

> > http://lotacats05.deviantart.com/

> >