The DEA is NOT EFFECTIVELY harrassing doctors into stopping prescribing Narcotic Analgesics....Some doctors however, are not willing to do the required paper work & follow up necessary to continue to prescribe narcotics to their patients....it takes a considerable amount of follow up & careful documentation to prescribe freely...I just came home from having surgery in another state....and walked out the door with a script for 120 percocet 10mg/325 APAP, 270 Oxycontin 40 mg/tabs after receiving 180 Oxycontin 20 mg tabs three days before.....They, however, dictate voluminous notes, make far less money, must maintian a much higher patient load to stay in practice & remain profitable because of it! I live in a city of well over 2 million people...with a friggin MAYO CLINIC, Barrow Neurological Institute, Pain Management doctors on ever corner...but none of the Pain Management docs here "believe in prescribing narcotic anaglesics"...why, we should ALL be asking ourselves that question....I know the answer...it has nothing to do with the DEA...it has everything to do with the god blessed dollar---when my PM doc here in phoenix did epidural injections, via caudal entry, he made $1200/per injection...he gave me 3 epidural injections /series & gave me a series of 3 injections every 3 months....3 x 1200 = 3600 X $14,400/year...then add 1 office visit before each series, one office visit after each injection and one office visit following each series....If he'd given me narcotic pain medications I wouldn't have needed all those injections...he would have only had office visits and no MONEY!!!! He did this in "clinics" where he lined us up like cattle going for slaughter, every 20 minutes another butt was up on the table in the air...clinic from 9 am to 2 pm, that's 3/hour x 15 patients x 14,400 thats $216,000 x 3 1/2 days per week thats $756,000 x 45 weeks per year, thats 3.4 MILLION dollars my friends.... My Pain Managmemnt doc in El PAso TX see's me in his office every 3-4 months, so an office visit, which he gets paid all of $62.00 for...the rest of the year he MAILS me my scripts for....gee...$16,000 vs $368.00 Now, the epidurals clearly didn't work all that well....that's why I had to go back....but, he kept doing them...and I was just desperate enough to need them....It's a racket by the lazy, money hungry doctors...they want you to BELIEVE it's the DEA...give me a break--DO THE MATH!
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