Message from a wife of a 25 year old who said that he was abusing the anxiolytics I prescribed him (as a bridge along with his SSRI initiation).
Sixty-some year old female patient who gave one of our nursing staff "attitude" when asking about an Rx to be mailed - and to close her conversation, my patient stated "bang bang" and hung up the phone.
Narcotics. Everywhere today. I am becoming more and more aware of this narcotic issue and I HATE it. Everything is dumped on family medicine - want more meds? Not me, go to your family doc.
Now I am getting a medication agreement on everyone. Hello, I'm your new doctor, please sign this agreement. Me - who delayed getting her DEA until the last possible moment because I despised that so-called privilege... am now becoming more and more paranoid about narcotics. Is it me, as the new doc, just a ton of patients doctor-shopping, oh she's so nice! Patients I trusted.
Who knows. Tonight I'm both disappointed and annoyed. Too much of my energy is spent on trying to determine who is legitimately in pain and who is drug-seeking. Did I really go into medicine for this?!
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