Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Hi , I'm brand new and don't know what has and hasn't been said. An urgent care is not the same as a hospital ER. They don't have the equipment/staff/meds to put a kidney-stone patient on a morphine drip or keep her for 24hrs/day of care. You really needed a full service hospital. They would have had their own radiologist and urologist who would hopefully made their own decisions, possibly without even the need to call your PCP. Unfortunately, if you go to a new MD, knowing your symptoms/treatment up and down and asking for narcotics or other strong analgesics - a little bell goes off in their head warning of drug seeking behavior. Believe me, I know how frustrating it is to know exactly what you need and not be able to get it. If you keep changing PCP's (not saying that you have), you also trigger suspiscions of drug-seeking behavior. The laws have recently changed making it much harder for PCP's to prescribe long-term pain therapy. My doc had treated me great for 4 years when the state board did an audit of his charts. He can't treat anyone for chronic pain or anxiety for more than 3 months without referring them to a pain clinic or anxiety. They're going from doc to doc so it wasn't anything my doc was doing wrong. The laws vary from state to state, but I'm sure there is DEA (federal) pushing for more stringent guidelines. Hope something here helps ; ) Willow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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