Do all doctors work for the drug companies? Rant

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by joanro on 11 October 2012 - 18:10

One more thing, doctors don't make money off healthy people, so, drugs are one way to generate "business".

by Bhaugh on 15 October 2012 - 23:10

well I always say...a happy patient is a well educated one... And remember not all docs are push overs for new meds and some new meds work awesome. Vonissk, your pharmacist should have caught the drug interaction with the codeine. So he wasn't on his game either. Make sure you go to the same pharmacy for all your meds so if the pharm doesn't catch the error, the computer will. Written scripts will be a thing of the past very soon so we won't have much of a chance to pharm skip like a lot of pain med patients do. This will hopefully keep interactions down and help catch problems.

I've had pharmacies call and advise of an interaction in the past. The doc had to get on the phone and clear it. SO some pharmacies do do their job.

by vonissk on 16 October 2012 - 00:10

Joanoro that is a sad story about that lady. Thank you I think it is totally out of my system now. I felt pretty ruff yesterday am when we were packing the car to leave and they were wanting to take me to the ER. I said oh hell no, my charts are all in Oklahoma and I am not going to have them shooting me full of stuff and God only knows what it will do to me. So I drank a nice cold soda and took my morning meds and soon I was feeling a lot better.

Bhaugh, I agree about the pharmacist. And when I go back over there I am going to do some butt chewing. About going the same place all the time--I go to the tribal clinic and pharmacy. No it is not PHS or IHS, our tribe owns it with no BIA intervention. But I also have insurance and nothing is free for me there--I pay for everything. Yes when you see the dr, they write it up on the computer and send it to the pharmacy so you go down and sign in and then they call you and give you your meds. OK I get tylenol 3's there. If they write you a script for an outside pharmacy, that has to be recorded in the pharmacy book. I go to walMart which is where I went to get the Lyrica. But I also get tylenol 4's there from an outside pain management dr and again THEY should have known and warned me...............So they have a butt chewing coming too. SOMEONE should have said something to me.

We just had a big todo in our little town about one of the nursing homes--I forget the amounts but there was enough for the state and the feds to file charges on these girls for stealing Loratabs and selling them. My home nurse and I was talking the other day about trying to get Claritan and all that cause of the meth labs. I know it is a problem everywhere but it seems to be worse here. Guess cause it is small and I live here. It's just really a shame because there are those of us who are honest.

by fawndallas on 16 October 2012 - 18:10

I so know what you mean. My husband and I have been through every GP within 50 miles of us. One even had the nerve to come into my husband's waiting room with shirt 1/2 untucked and fresh dirt on pants. we now travel 125 miles to our old doctor. heaven help us if there is an emergency.

by Mindhunt on 17 October 2012 - 22:10

Peter Breggin MD, "Your Drug May Be Your Problem" is a good book on medications, especially psychiatric medications.

My clinical psychology doctoral program says that now every client treatment plan from that very first intake session needs "Recommend evaluation for medication treatment of symptoms by ..."to be compliant with current standards of care.

When I hear of 4 and 5 year olds being put on psychiatric medications for some disorder, I shudder at what that is doing to their forming brains. Research has shown that mostly women are automatically put on psychiatric medications like Lyrica or Cymbalta for chronic conditions like migraines or other long term pain conditions when a PRN (as needed) pain medication works much better. Big Pharma and big oil are the two top contributors to political campaigns which is frightening.

A good resource that I use regularly now and back when I was a Paramedic (an ER doc gave me one of the original copies years ago) is EPOCRATES. You create a username and password and then can download the app to your smart phone or tablet and use it on your computer. It lists medications, adverse effects, dosages, etc. You can also set it to your insurance perscription plan and it will let you know if the medication is covered by your insurance and what alternatives there are. It has a pretty good interaction checker and lets you know if the medications will interact adversely.

http://www.epocrates.com

by vonissk on 17 October 2012 - 22:10

Great info and thank you for that link--I am definately going to check it out. My main place has been WebMD--I like that there are a lot of testimonies from other people on there--I trust people's opinions more then I really do the drs. When all this started happening that's where I went and found out so much cause I had no idea what in the hell was going on. And you know, I am no druggie but I just wish they would give me my Loratabs and let me take one as I need it--I can take half a 10 and it lasts at least 8 hours for me and I am able to walk really well without all the nerve pain. I generally only take them when I am going out for the day and know I am going to have to be on my feet a lot. But thanks to all the little pill poppers and people who only get them to sell, it makes it hard for those of us who are honest and really need them................

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