I need my Dilaudid and turkey sandwich. Working a surgical floor, I have heard this more times than I care to think and usually from a patient who is so snowed, that they are slurring words and barely staying awake. It is, however, a lot more common than you would think it is. Pain, the fifth …
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Podcast
Chris is back, not that he left I have been a tad lazy with my foot and all. Today we talk about opiates and the problems those have created. We are also going to be talking to some other folks down the road. Yeah we are back
The castle has a roof, and no one has a clue…
Well, that was pleasant/unpleasant. The castle needed a new roof, and it is fixed and makes the place look at least 500 years younger (it has made it less drafty, which needs to be fixed). Memorial Day here was soggy and uneventful, even the hospital was quiet with a low census. It is one …
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Opiates…
So in an article in Wired, today discusses a concern not only to pain medicine but to addiction medicine. APRIL GROVE DOYLE, a 40-year-old single mom with metastatic breast cancer, pulled her car to the side of the road. Her face was flushed and her eyes puffy from crying, but she looked into the phone …