DrugBuyers.Com: U.S. Compares Va. Pain Doctor to 'Crack Dealer'

Having been a member of a chronic pain mailing list in the past, I have heard of people so desperate for relief of pain that they will travel to him and stay for 2-3 days until he finds what works for their pain. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was Dr. Hurwitz who was cleared by his states' board of medicine, and that new patients must go to one of "their" clinics first to be 'cleared' before Dr. H was allowed to treat their intractable chronic pain.
(These idiots put a man whose body was amputated up to his torso through the ringer!!)

Of COURSE, if people can find someone compassionate to treat us pain sufferers, people will go in DROVES to see him (while they thank GOD that there is at least ONE doctor out there that will take them and their pain seriously enough to HELP them!)

If a doctor happens to have MANY patients - that has now, automatically been equated to "RED FLAG! DRUG DEALER!! ARREST HIM/HER!" when these idiots (who have NO medical degree yet find themselves justified to question a doctor with YEARS and YEARS of experience) - they just don't GET it!!!
People who suffer so much that they will do ANYTHING for relief are the people sitting in his office - so of COURSE it will be packed, as ANY doctor's office would when it is a doctor who treats pain compassionately and treats a patient with dignity! When will the "drug cops" and the NARC pharmacists get this through their sick/thick skulls?!?!

It seems like the day is coming where ALL doctors who EVER prescribe ANY decent pain medication to ANY patient will be threatened with "life in prison" for being a drug dealer, instead of simply trying to obey the Hippocratic Oath they took to "first, do no harm". What can be worse than taking the relief away from someone who is in so much pain, that they've considered TOO many times that perhaps putting a gun in their mouth to be the only way to be finally relieved of the pain once and for all? Dr. Hurwitz saved MANY peoples'
lives, but as they say, no good deed goes unpunished .

Seems to me like medicine is going backwards, rather than embracing the future - and the future of medicine SHOULD be to allow those of us to suffer to be treated appropriately and NOT be treated like drug addicts.

There will always be idiots who sell their drugs. I have never been, and will never BE, one of those people - my meds are worth more to me than GOLD - and it isnt' because I'm addicted, but because I think that the "pursuit of happiness" (that is supposed to be the RIGHT of all Americans) seems to be only for those who are healthy, and that people like us who can't help and did not ASK for the hand we were dealt (the PAIN) will always be at the mercy of those who have no idea what it's like to live in our shoes, with our pain.

I hope I see a change of this horrible situation in my lifetime - but with the sound of things, that life might not be as long as I wish it could be. A person can only stand so much pain before death becomes more and more attractive, ESPECIALLY when something as simple as ADEQUATE pain control could completely turn around our lives and make us TRULY want to live again. Do they think we WANT to be a burden to others? NO! We just want to be able to feel as normal as we can.

I know *I* don't care about getting high. I just want to sweep the floor, do grocery shopping, play with my CHILD, and even do something as mundane as washing a sink of dirty dishes without tears (and having to stop after less than a minute to rest and cry until the pain subsides enough to continue.) Most of the time I don't even TRY because, even with the minimal pain control I have, to do these things will make me suffer for days afterward.

If you pray...pray for Dr. Hurwitz, and all the other doctors who are out there who WANT to help us, but find themselves getting into trouble when they can't control what a drug dealer does... They lie and do whatever they can do to get treatment (and it seems like they have their own handbook on 'how to act to get the drugs you want so you can sell them on the street') but then either don't need pain relief at all, or, they overstate their "pain" to get enough drugs to sell on the street - but guess who is paying for it? The good doctors, and US!

What should Dr. Hurwitz, or ANY doctor do, who is doing the best he can with the information he is given by the patient? Doctors are not mind-readers, yet the feds THINK they SHOULD be. Funny...I didn't think being a psychic was part of getting a medical degree.

This just makes me sick....

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Cypress434

Character is what you do when no one is watching.