A Pain Patient's (aka "drug-seeker") ER Adventure!

[Holden2003hr]

Thank you for this. Doctors thinking I was a drug seeker nearly resulted in my death from Crohn's disease. My intestine was rotting away and I was called a drug seeker. Thank GOD for Westchester Medical Center in NY. They listened and saved my life.

[Justericpersonal]

I am confused...You say in the comments that I have seen(I read the comments a lot) that you are a pain patient? but,yet you say "drug seeker" in the title and in the description it says "pain" like that? At first,when seeing this I was mad because,I am a chronic pain patient and have been treated that way but,I want to make sure before,I jump all over you.. haha

[PayneHertz]

@Justericpersonal

I put the words "pain" and "drug-seeker" in quotes for a reason. These are called "scare quotes" and are designed to cast doubt on the idea that doctors are capable of discerning who is and who is not a drug-seeker, but instead tend to tar far too many people with this brush based on their own ignorant, cold-hearted and bigoted attitudes to wards people with pain. This video is an expose of those ignorant attitudes and behaviors.

[Justericpersonal]

@PayneHertz Ok,well I do appreciate you taking the time to explain it and trust me I feel your pain(no pun intended) as I am a chronic pain patient as well. It is unfair to cast doubt on pain patients unless you actually know them and have something to go on. I guess it would be hard to tell SOMETIMES but,you can normally tell if a person is in pain or if they just want drugs. That is why I asked cuz,I figured there was a reason for what you did. God bless you friend! :)

[PayneHertz]

@Justericpersonal

As for putting the word "pain" in quotes, doctors often do this as a way of casting doubt on the legitimacy of a patient's pain complaints, and I have done so here more for the sake of irony, as it should be clear from the video the patient has suffered a real injury and is in real pain, but the doctor is too much of an asshole to acknowledge it. This video is based on reality, and doctors consider "pain" and pain to be two different things.

[Justericpersonal]

@PayneHertz They can be two different things,people CAN have "pain" but,doctors need to know the difference. thanks for the explanation :) God bless you!

[fnchrstphr]

If Mrs O'Hara fell off a step ladder and injured her back how did she get to the hospital? Did she drive herself? If I were the attending physician I would think you're lying too.

[PayneHertz]

@fnchrstphr

That's because you're a lousy doctor and an even worse judge. It is quite possible to injure your back and still walk, it depends on the nature of the injury. You can fracture vertebrae and have no pain at all, or get a muscle strain that is so intense the slightest movement causes excruciating pain. It's sad the degree of ignorance out there in our medical profession, and little wonder you subscribe to the moronic "drug-seeker" tropes so many of your fellow sociopaths do.

[animegirl101able]

huh going to the er for a cold bullshit

[LuvMyBirdies]

This is so true. Thanks for posting!

[TheresaTV1]

If you are capable of arguing with the doctor, you don't belong in the ER in the first place!!!

[PayneHertz]

@TheresaTV1

That is no doubt related to the "if you can eat and talk on a cell phone, you're not in pain" myths. Now people in pain can't argue? You might want to ask the question why anyone in pain NEEDS to argue with a doctor to get their pain treated, particularly when they are paying $2,000 or more for an ER visit. You must be a medical professional.

[TheresaTV1]

@PayneHertz

I didn't say the pain should not be treated. I said IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE SEEN IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM. That's what your primary care physician is for, or a pain management clinic for chronic pain. That is why the ER doctor has no use for this patient.  This patient does NOT have an EMERGENCY and she is taking the doctor's time away from people with true medical emergencies.

[PayneHertz]

If a person has just injured their back or is having a severe exacerbation of a chronic pain condition, that IS an emergency situation. What kind of sadist expects human beings to endure pain for days, weeks and even months on end until they can find a doctor out there who treats pain aggressively? That medical professionals can rationalize this kind of brutality is the main reason we need to allow pain patients to treat their own pain rather than have to rely on our barbaric medical system.

[PayneHertz]

@TheresaTV1

What you said was "If you are capable of arguing with the doctor, you don't belong in the ER in the first place!!!," an opinion which shows a complete lack of awareness and empathy for what it's like to be in pain and how people behave when in pain. This is just another one of those mindless, misanthropic rules-of-thumb that ER types employ that have no basis in reality and which serve only to demonize patients for asking to get the treatment they are paying for.

[Celiecinema1]

Interesting, now Dr. Killpatient has gone crazy!

[SherriSLC]

If I had back pain, I would run 5 miles a day until it went away. Classic.

[PayneHertz]

@SherriSLC

A doctor actually told me that. About 90 percent of what's in that video is stuff doctors told me or people in pain I know.

[SherriSLC]

Dr. Killpatient. Love it.