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 …
Tag: Pain management
War Stories…
Now, this isn't the guns and combat kind of war stories, I think we have enough of that with our schools today. I'm talking about the stories experiences that a new nurse has or an old nurse when working the floor. I know I have a few of them over the years I think for …
This week’s click bait is crap…
Someone in a small hospital in Missouri needs to lose their job. Straight up, you violated HIPPA you need to disclose yourself to the administrator and suffer disciplinary action. Why? Simple you violated the patient's right to privacy and allowed information about a patient to be reported without his consent. The video of …
Just say no
Or why everyone relapses As always, a patient presents to the ER with a dependence on prescription drugs. In the workup of the patient, I found the usual pattern with opiate prescribing. Use over time creates tolerance and starts an increased need for medication. In the current prescribing climate, we want the person to …