CHI Mercy is so great about spinning the details on anything that they can turn into a big billboard along the highway. Let’s see how they spin this one off too. Leapfrog’s Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grade reports are out.
CHI Mercy discrimination
Was contacted by an out-of-state media company called Patient Point that was hired by Mercy to start advertising local physicians on a TV screen located in their ER and south entrance to their hospital. The Patient Point agent researched physicians
The up and coming opioid crisis: Buprenorphine !
While everyone deals with the “opioid” crisis, more and more patients are being “converted” to Buprenorphine products (really just another opioid). These Medication Assisted Treatment centers are popping up all over the place because it’s the “preferred” treatment that is
Study feels PDMP’s are flawed; I couldn’t agree more.
Here is my response to the Pain News Network article entitled: “Study: Prescription Drug Databases Overestimate Opioid Misuse” written by Pat Anson and posted 8-13-19: “PDMP databases are just numbers and details. At least in Oregon, I have had to
Response to Pain News Network article of 7-19-19
Here’s my response to the article by Pat Anson posted July 19, 2019 on the Pain News Network entitled: “Pharmacists and Rx Wholesalers Charged with Drug Trafficking“ “It’s high time that any of the corporate executives that are charges with
Response to Pain News Network article of 8-6-19
Here’s my response to the article “Co-Pay Assistance Programs Fail to Help Uninsured Patients” by Pat Anson and posted on the Pain News Network on August 6, 2019: “Multi-million dollar fines do NOT change their behavior . . . because
Response to Pain News Network article of 8-8-19
Here’s my response to an article posted on Pain News Network on August 8, 2019 by Pat Anson and titled: “Experts Advise Against It, But Opioids Often Used to Treat Migraine.” “While there have been numerous other medications available to
Response to article posted on Pain News Network 8-10-19
Here’s an opinion I posted on the Pain New Network in response to the article “Are Rx Opioids the Culprits or Scapegoats for Opioid Crisis?” by Dr. Lynn Webster and posted August 10, 2019: “There have always been multiple contributors
More regarding Chronic Pain Patient discrimination
Here is my second response due to the many responses posted by patients on the article “Michigan Opioid Study Discusses Access to Primary Care Clinics for Patients with Chronic Pain” posted on July 14, 2019 by Ed Coghlan on the
Chronic Pain Patients get discrimination even from regular primary care
Here’s my response to the article “Michigan Opioid Study Discusses Access to Primary Care Clinics for Patients with Chronic Pain” posted on July 14, 2019 by Ed Coghlan on the National Pain Report website. The first thing clinics used to