Pain clinic second opinion on blinded test pain doc

May 15, 2005

Responses my mum got on the pain doc and procedures I have been

through

Well I rang the pain clinic today

Do they do plain blocks ? yes only with written consent.

Do they do blind tests where they do not tell patients what they are

doing or what they are giving them? No

Do they do epidural's for pain relief? yes with written consent and

telling patient what they are giving them.

Do they put in venous pain pumps? Yes and telling patients what

they are giving them

Would they take a referral from you? Yes either by the doctor who

would give a written history or from your hospital

Their assessment would take four hours and they said would be good

to get a second opinion.

They do have a pain pump option via epidural called a spinal cord

stimulator injection and would cost the hospital $26,000 and would

only do where there were no other options available and it was

affecting your quality of life.

You have the option and they would encourage it if you had concerns

about your treatment at ...... in that you should see the head of

the pain team about your ethical concerns. Tell ...... about your

concerns and attitude of medical specialist and go with an open mind

and assess with your support person later.

They have never heard of a hospital treating a person for pain

without telling them what they are doing and consent. They did ask

it he was an overseas doctor

They believed that you are eligible for malpractice from the

suffering over 6 years

The said that 6 years is too long to be putting up with severe pain

and I said that at times you believe that your life is not worth

continuing if this level of pain continues throughout your life.

Sounds as though you need me to come with you or you need to come

down here for a day in the first instance.

You can get them to refer you for a spinal cord assessment

Thanks goodness I have my mum, so now I am goign to get my records

make an appt to see my specialist, and get an appt to see head pain

guy where I am rigth now with list of questions then get referral

debs

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