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Not all those needing treatment are addicts
Published Thursday, July 2, 2009
I read the article recently about the drug abuse being done by using the ambulance service in this area but should everyone be treated as an addict?
I went to Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Sunday night and was treated as if I was there to misuse the system, for a drug fix.
I recently had surgery and I am still having complications and was in pain. I was asked whose pain killers have I been taking. I feel that the doctor should have seen that I was not an abuser.
Yes there was medicine in my system but I have been on medicine since April but I am still having problems. I am not looking for a fix.
I do know there is a serious drug problem in this area but not everyone is an addict.
Lettie Aiken
South Point
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Posted by nottellin (anonymous) on July 5, 2009 at 9:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Why should he have "known" you're not an abuser? You have had drugs in your system since April.
Why are you going to the Emergency Room for CHRONIC pain??? Why don't you go to your doctor? Is it because he won't give you the drugs you get at the ER?
That's why they treated you as an addict... You have chronic pain, and went to the ER when you SHOULD have gone to your own regular doctor. That is exactly what addicts do.
Posted by MEinOH (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 12:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Unfortunately nottellin is right. If you are not an addict then you did something that addicts do, therefore, the staff had no choice but to treat you as such. I know it's not fair, and it makes you feel uncared for by the medical staff, but what other choice do they have? Even my own doctor treated me this way until my x-rays from my er visit (which was after an auto-accident so it truly was an emergency) came back showing my multiple muscle strains. I was a little angry at first, but I also understood the many, many, so-called "patients" who are there simply for a fix. Blame it on society, not the doctors, nurses, etc. But it does suck.
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