Re: Doctor's are often insensitive or naive or both

[Guest guest]

Jeff,

Hugs! I know how you feel. Docs can leave you feeling like the lowest piece

of dirt on the planet. My heart breaks for you. I sure know your pain. But step

back and remember that he IS an idiot and you are a good person, you are not a

doggy. I hate that the druggies have made this path for us to walk down the rest

of our lives as that is probably how long we will need our pain meds. I take

meds that are a lot stronger than Lortab. Those are a thing of the past for me

unfortunately. We tend to get immune to the meds and have to have stronger stuff

to take care of our pain.

There is one thing you can do to make yourself feel better. That is to express

yourself in writing. Personally what I would do is write a letter to the

American Medical Association and CC the letter to that Doctor. He should be

reprimanded for the way he treated you and this will go in his file.

Here is the AMA's address:

American Medical Association

515 N. State Street

Chicago, IL 60610

Give it a try, it will make you feel better and perhaps make him think twice

before speaking next time. You could save someone else from the hurt you feel.

Hugs

~Tommie/Oklahoma

Doctor's are often insensitive or naive or both

Today I saw a new PCP. He looked at the info I had given on the

questionaire and honed in on the fact that I take a narcotic pain

releiver. The first thing he said to me was: If you're here to get a

prescription for Lortabs, the drug I had listed on the questionnaire,

you've come to the wrong place, I don't prescribe narcotics. I

explained to him that a pain management specialist prescribes my

narcotic pain releivers for me. I'm her to see you simply because I

need a new PPC. This didn't register in his tiny little mind because

he had already decided that I was a narcotic drug seeker. He told me

that some people use such drugs to get high and then said; I'm not

saying that you're one of those people. This is a phrase that he

continued to repeat throught our visit--I'm not saying that

you're 'that' type of pesrson. Finally he said that he didn't believe

in narcotic medications. When I left his office I felt hurt, I felt

guilty, and I felt as if I had been judged by this nincompoop of a

doctor. He was so focused on my use of narcotic medications that he

didn't adress the problem that I went to see him for in the first

place. I wrote him off as an idiot that somehow got a medical degree

and am now looking for another PCP. Why do many doctors assume,

erroniously, that a person is seeking drugs when the pain drugs they

take are for legitimate pain.

Now I wish that that particular doctor could experience the type of

pain that I experience every day--then he might believe in narcotic

pain mecicine. I still feel guilty and I still wish that I didn't

have a medical condition that requires the use of narcotic drugs; he

really made me feel bad about myself. I always thought that doctors

are supposed to help you to feel better--not worse.

Jeff