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Building a Wall Between Pain Patients and Their Doctors


Building a Wall Between Pain Patients and Their Doctors
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The Associated Press reported recently about doctors being threatened by patients who are in desperate pain and have been abruptly cut off from their opioid pain medications. This is not common, but not surprising, given the tendency of policymakers and many health care practitioners to misinterpret and misapply the 2016 CDC
Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. The misinterpretation of the guidelines and the lack of policymakers’ appreciation for nuance causes many doctors to be intimidated by law enforcement overseeing Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, leading them to undertreat or even abruptly stop medicating patients with chronic, severe pain. Compassionate physicians who want to help their patients read horror stories in the press about doctors like them being arrested or having their licenses suspended. As a result, many doctors are giving up treating pain altogether, ref ....

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Report: Doctors Who Say No to Opioid Users Face Threats


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UNDATED (AP)  One patient threatened to shoot Dr. Terry Hunt if physical therapy didn’t relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did. Another harassed his staff, then roamed a hospital searching for Hunt after being told he would be weaned off painkillers he had used inappropriately.
Hunt was unharmed, but shaken enough to ask the central Illinois hospital system where he worked to dismiss both patients.
So when he heard about Tuesday’s attack at a medical clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota, that left one person dead and four injured, “the first thing I assumed is that it was something to do with pain medication,” said Hunt, who now works for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a Mayo Clinic Health System facility in Red Wing, Minnesota. “It makes us ask about our own workplace: How secure are we?” ....

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