Re: Time to change th subject about the Feds etc.

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Moderator's note: Thanks Becky, I'm glad you understand.

Kaylene

I have read and understand, Kaylene

Love,

Becky/SD

>Hi Everyone

I know this is an important issue, but I believe after this message we will have

talked about it enough. Please remember, that this is an International group.

This is the last message of this thread. I'm sorry so many people are having a

horrible time. It's a travesty, and a nightmare, but we must move on now to

other subjects.

There are other groups, you can join not only talk about these problems, but are

politically active.

Kaylene

Moderator

>This is a local article, if the moderators will allow it to be

posted, about the DEA and Feds medaling in patient's affairs and

relationships patient:doctor.

I think there are some good points about why no one wants to take care

of us and write prescriptions. They called one clinic a pill mill, but

those doctors were all sentenced to 25 years to life for fraud and

over writing prescription medications.

7 doctors went to jail and one committed suicide was the outcome of

this investigation. This happened a year before I went to work here in SC.

>>All of the gray areas were portrayed by the prosecutors as smoke

screens behind which the doctors pretended to practice medicine as

they really just operated a pill mill. Sure it was ludicrous, but it

worked. I am praying we can reverse it.

But back to structure. As those of you who have been reading me know,

I think that it is demeaning and horrendous and goes against the basic

and most primary medical precept of maintaining the patient's dignity

and autonomy. I believe that all this focus on abuse has no place in a

legitimate doctor-patient relationship. I think that the pain

community made its fatal error when it adopted this police duty

demanded of it by the authorities (back then we still thought opioids

were being abused a lot and were inherently dangerous, I know)

and we are all now paying the price because the prosecution I

witnessed was for the doctor's failure to be good cops, not for

failure to be good doctors.

Once you allowed your role to be fundamentally changed as it was, you

left yourselves open to this nightmare.

You can't restrict patients enough to satisfy the DEA. They hate pain

patients, think they' re lying scum, and insist you treat them that

way or be thrown in jail for the rest of your life.

You can't assume a major part of your opponent's rationale into your

behavior and then oppose your opponent successfully on any other

front. Once you have done this

(and structure is the DEA ugliness made real in the lives of your

patients) you have lost it all. Doctors are not cops and ought never

be cops. Never.

The doctor's capitulation on this fundamental part of medical practice

appears to be the real reason why we haven't been able to get

anywhere. It's the profession's dirty little secret.

What good will it do if we can get the Feds out of the Meds or the

Cops off the Docs if you guys haven't given this part of the nightmare

a good long look and renounced your role as officers of the law?

Mistakes get made when people are under pressure but we need to own

our mistakes and try to correct them.

Article by a Doctor here in S.C., USA

Janet (SC)

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