@daprez1963 I'm sick of the hypocrisy of marijuana being freely given to non-pain people from licensed physicans giving medical marijuana evaluations to anyone who can answer a few prompts. And on the other hand, real chronic pain patients requiring the legitmate use of opioids have the impossibly difficult burden of dealing with these social stigmas, oppressive law enforcement and fearful doctors.
@iatrogenicsteve I am not sure I have seen anyone prescribe weed as a choice in the ER setting. Sure, there are MDs out there that do....money talks for some. you also see some MDs get throw in prison too. ask MJ's doctor. get injured and need pain control, we get the ball rolling and hand off to your PMD. Need meds for a continued chronic pain from an injury you suffered years ago, go to a pain MD, not the ER. we treat injuries, not pain med appetites.
I was just in the ER lst week from a horrible tetanus shot reaction-had a cold sore when got the shot-which made that cold sore turn into a lip the size of a baseball w/some horrible looking stuff that a cold sore never had and it was blowing up my whole face. YOU want to talk about pain?I didn't even ask for anything. Doc asked ME if I had anything for pain and I told him I already take pain med. for chronic pain so i dn't need. I NEEDED novacain in that lip as much as it wldv killed-it was bad
@iatrogenicsteve what is pitiful is actual pain caused by the misuse of healthcare system. we r not legal drug dealers. the waiting room & er exam rooms r 4 legit people w/ actual pain from recent injury. not back pain from 10 yrs ago. we're no longer allowed in Florida 2 prescribe pain medication for chronic pain since we're not registered w/ the state & is now illegal 4 us 2. that is up 2 a pain management doctor who is. lawmakers are getting tough on these issues.
wow so true I have run into some crazy patients like this...lol...except they look at me like I'm the crazy one with a problem...like they know my job better than me...lol
I don't understand about the Phenerghan. I take it as need for nausea. Why would she ask for that? Maybe I am missing something in the video.
But I know this happens very often in hospital. Addiction is a disease that will make you do anything. I used to be one. I used to frequent different hospitals. And rarely would they NOT give me a narcotic. I only got rejected a couple times. But I'm not proud of it at all. Plus I never got pushy like the woman in the video. But I don't doubt that it hap
Not sure what all the hubbub is about. As an ER employee I can tell you that this is LAUGHABLY accurate! We have to laugh or we will eventually nut up... I wish this were hyperbole, but its not. I see this ALL THE TIME. The only think they left out was the woman asking for a turkey sandwich...
@daprez1963 You write this as if it's an indictment of doctors when the problems are the patients and DEA policies. In terms of Medical Standards of Practice, pain can't be objectified no matter what records are presented. And prescription medications aren't always well-suited or appropriate to the patient; this doesn't necessarily the doctor knew or intended it to be so.
@gwbian22 Charts and prior visit history is viewed as an aide. If a person were to continually come in with this "fathom" abdominal pain that is not explainable by any test we perform, than it does become suspicious and viewed as a drug seeker and the pt is advised that you will not be getting any narcs and told to follow up with their PCP to be given a referral to a pain management doctor for further treatments and told to have a good day (along with "don't bother coming here again" speech)...
It is sad that there are people out there like that. They make life HELL for the rare chronic pain patient who goes to the ER. I have pain that is adequately managed for the most part. However, the times it DOES get out of control I NEVER have gone to the ER. I couldn't take the possible shame of being treated like I was one of THOSE people when I have a valid, painful illness that I have managed with my PCP for several years now. :(
@daprez1963 As a chronic pain patient but am also semi-sane, so I can see both sides of this issue. It's a difficult issue, and there really ARE people who have chronic pain and have very bad pain flares. To a chronic pain patient, these pain flares ARE an emergency. But to ER doctors, an acute problem (a broken bone, a back injury, a serious wound) is a real emergency. Without labs or scans to back it up, most ERs just aren't equipped to diagnose and treat pain. Chronic pain needs a pain dr.
@daprez1963 As an ER nurse, what you say is very true....but it is ultimately up to the physicians in ALL ers to stop this. We all have some that will give whatever the patient wants some of the time if not all of the time. The information needs to be given at an Emergency Room Physician conference and maybe we will make some head way. I totally agree with you but as a nurse it comes down to the few who are capable of prescribing the meds.
@captainmorgan1973 They sure do. I suffered for years and wound up needing several surgeries to manage my illness, and I feel that it could have been prevented if someone had taken my pain seriously, rather than just thinking that I wanted pills because I was young. Young does not equal healthy. And pain is a sign that something is wrong. I wish that there were non-opioid pain meds that worked as well as the ones all the seekers want. There just aren't right now. :(
I was a taker for many years ! Now I take the Suboxone I am 39 yrs old . I got tired of being sick all the time an missing out on life . An i told on my self to each doctor what i was doing . An their comment was ok thats great u stop they said if u need us an cant make it just give us a call back . A lot of this stuff is doctors faults as long as u give them the money they will keep on handing them scripts out I could go one place an a hour later go to another place an fill 2 or 3 scripts of
@Stephaniehopson77 You think we get paid to prescribe narcotics??? Please!!!! I would pay to not have to deal with a drug seeker! Most of us get paid by the hour, just so you know! ER's ARE NOT PAIN CLINICS! Don't make remarks if you have no idea what you are talking about! BY the way, drug seeker don't pay bills so we don't get a dime from them! An absolute waste of time and resources!
They gave me dilaudid once. I was there for injury from seizure. Dilaudid is horrible. Scared the hell out of me. I can't see why anyone would want that pushed fast. But then, there are a huge amount of severe er patients that refuse to go to er because of this problem
@daprez1963 I watch people drown themselves in alcohol and cigarettes every day. The government seems to enjoy passing those things out. Another few years of Obama, and we will all need Oxycontin in our breakfast cereal.
I won't go to er for this reason. Had severe accident & it took forever. When you're laying in a hall bleeding (head trauma then epilepsy) & patient room is filled with laughing patient, visitors & vending machine food. You get pissed.
Classic scenarios : I have pain, I can't function. Blah. Blah. I wonder why Pygmy does not ask why these meds are not OTC.
If it's so unbearable 24/7 go ahead with selective ganglion transaction and I guarantee you a painless partially handicapped life. Face it, they are psychologically and physically dependent on it. Yet, It's amazing how the can function in Jail without Narcs.
@AstroPygmy Then why isn't your PCP controlling it w/ pain mgmt or rehab? Why should someone rely on ER for something thats known to be hurting & already been treated for since 18 yrs of age? I love it when someone comes in & says they have backpain & have had it 10 years yet have never gone anywhere for treatment nor have a family doctor. What the heck made it all of a sudden a priority to come to the ER and wait in the lobby, laughing on the phone while eating a combo meal from Burger King?
@sdtuu While you assume a lot of things, make no mistake about this....EVERYONE should be angry with people who abuse the Health System because in the long run, we ALL pay for it with higher cost in premiums and prescription costs. All there stupid wasteful visits to the ER simply to get addicting drugs that they can not get from their PCP because the red flags were raised long ago and they refuse to give any more. Little do they know, these narcotics are monitored as well by Walgreens etc.
@ihatefatpeople7 wow, you could not be more wrong. Age is but a number, sickness shows no mercy. I had Fibermyalga at 19. That is not pain? GO PLAY IN TRAFFIC RETARD. END OF CONVERSATION!
@cool3929 your the retard for believing that you had "Fibermyalga" (btw it's spelled Fibromyalgia) Go take your Lyrica and Percocets or whatever Opiates your on. You Fucking wastoid
@TheAjsdaddy You are a waste of life! I don't take opiates. I take 1 pill a day and that is Ibprofun. Man, I would love to talk to your parents and tell your dad you should have been a hand job!! END OF DISCUSSION! I will not feed into a ignorant inbred!
@Bevin313 This video is not saying that patients with chronic pain are drug seekers. Drug seeker use this diagnosis even if they have never been diagnosed with it to get what they want. You have no idea how frequent this is, and they act exactly they way is represented in this video...demanding, irrational, inconsistent and incredibly disrespectful. And I'm talking about DRUG SEEKERS, not about patients with real medical problems.
@bluesrp But, man, is it hard to tell the difference between drug seekers and those with real medical issues. I've had 7 surgeries to deal with endometrosis and a host of other issues stemming from it, and have lost a total of 5 organs, which includes a full hysterectomy. And I have chronic pain due to the scarring that just won't stop coming. Yet I am treated like a drug seeker by my local hospital because every so often, for a few days I have pain that my meds don't control.
@Bevin313 Now its time to ban you from here. We have heard enough BS from you. You are a self proclaimed drug seeker who thinks lawyers can force doctors to hand out narcs. That is 100% BS. Wake up from your fantasy before your life passes you by. Sure, doctors take an oath to treat their pts. That doesn't include making them drug addicts....
Why aren't pharmaceuticals more strictly controlled? It seems like a lot of the abuses of emergency rooms and hospitals is from drug seekers. If so, why not make it much more difficult to prescribe these medications?
@baaadbart The simple fact is there are legitimate people out there with pain that follow the instructions provided by their PCP and actually benefit from the use of these drugs. Its the ones that abuse them that make it harder on us by tying up the ER with their addiction problem. Its usually obvious who is abusing them but sometimes it is not.
She's the reason why I have a complimentary plastic vial of Mike-n-Ike's labeled "chill pills" at my pharmacy. What the doctor goes through here is half of what pharmacists have to deal with.
they are screwed up in the head, and doctors don't have time to deal with people like this who will refuse real help anyway. they're taking away from time that can be used to help people in immediate need.
the problem with frequent fliers is the stupid govenrment has given too much power to the people regarding the control of their pain. They know we are obligated to treat their pain as it is as pts "perceive it". ER staff know its all bullshit and doctors should be given just as much freedom to minimally medicate or with hold medication. If your pain is a 10 and yet you are sitting up in the stretcher, calmly speaking to staff, your visitor, or on the cell phone, you are NOT in that much pain.
these kinds of patients deserve the least but demand the most. the emergency rooms are no longer for emergencies but are another free ride for the dysfunctional people of our communities.
@daprez1963 I totally agree with you... at 67DieHardPatriot454 Get over it... that is a reality that is prevalent in the ER, like where i work... you can actually tell people who really are in pain and who are just faking it... Most of the time... it shows in their Vital Signs if they really are in Pain... and if you consider Us not taking care of patient with a 12 visits in a month for pain medicine, then we don't know what to tell you.... except they're Junkies!!!!
@stupidjunk878 - moron, you missed the point...anyway, these numbskulls don't "HAVE" to abuse the ER;
they "CHOOSE" to..... got a million examples after working for years in an ER. My favorite- the illegal mexican who brought her 6 children to the ER (there were five family surnames) to have them "checked" because their cousin who lived 75 miles away in Austin, had contracted pneumonia 3-weeks ago!!! I took great pleasure in reporting her rude - obnoxious - ass!!!! Get a grip moron!!!
I have worked in e ER for years and yes while things almost this bad happen each day, I don't like that in each of these videos it is a woman who is the drug seeker. We actually have a lot of men who do this as well. Women's pain and symptoms are often under diagnosed and ignored and these video just reinforce the attitude all women are faking for drugs. Men on the other hand seem to be given whatever they ask for no questions asked because certainly a man would lie about pain or symptoms.
someone needs to do one of mom bringing kid in for wheezing and you know they have a nebulizer at home,you ask them how many tx" did you give at home and they say none. i want to sooo bad to say "HERE'S YOUR SIGN'
Ok, I've seen on other people saying that health care providers making these videos are why our med. System sucks.... DUDE... if you worked with this kind of thing EVERY NIGHT, I'm sure you need an outlet. They don't say it is a specific patient or anything to give away any identities.l I think its brilliant and its nice to know what our medical system HAS to deal with. Well done! I love these videos
Had the same case at my GP surgery the other day, Patient brought in a "sample" in a jar that she claimed she had coughed up from her lungs which looked very much like blue bubblegum, the foolish Dr sent it off as sputum for Mc&s but thankfully denied her the oxynorm she came for!
Genius, dude. Pure genius. For those of you who have never been an ER staff and find this hard to believe, believe it! This DOES happen, waaaaay too often.
so sad...i can't wait for the day when there is a clinically proven potent pain med that is non-narcotic and non-euphoric and non-allergenic! these people are parasites!!!
Couldn't have said it better myself! Amen for someone saying it like it is. Only those of us that have worked ER can likely understand the craziness we deal with!
This is true we see this every night ,this is whats wrong with health care ppl on welfare take the medics in for ear infection they abuse the ER but we cant crap about it , i hope someday ppl will take reposnblty for them self
And they are all so poor, not! They have cell phones, gold teeth, Cadillacs and no jobs. Thank God for welfare, food coupons, no visible means of support, dead end mail addresses. Never get a penny out of them. so may I be blunt? them refers to the african americans who suck the system dry.
@11Bee3O don't forget the illegal aliens, those from Bosnia, Russia, Israel, the Middle East, Africa, need I go on? They don't pay their bills, have no insurance. But God forbid that I forget to pay my bill, I get a nasty letter from the hospital.
Hits the nail on the head! Health care reform should start with reforming patients abusing emergency services and resources! Doctors are subject to malpractice claims from vulture plaintiff attorneys, but patients are have no accountability whatsoever in our health care system!
he is by giving everyone insurance so they don't have to come to the er for their primary care. how is he going to take care of individual cases of drug addicts.
No, this is how we see drug seekers and crazies that habitually abuse us in the ER. Yes, they need psych help but we can't force it on them. These kinds of people use up resources, time, energy and compassion that our real patients deserve.
@daprez1963 I'm sick of the hypocrisy of marijuana being freely given to non-pain people from licensed physicans giving medical marijuana evaluations to anyone who can answer a few prompts. And on the other hand, real chronic pain patients requiring the legitmate use of opioids have the impossibly difficult burden of dealing with these social stigmas, oppressive law enforcement and fearful doctors.
iatrogenicsteve 1 week ago
@iatrogenicsteve I am not sure I have seen anyone prescribe weed as a choice in the ER setting. Sure, there are MDs out there that do....money talks for some. you also see some MDs get throw in prison too. ask MJ's doctor. get injured and need pain control, we get the ball rolling and hand off to your PMD. Need meds for a continued chronic pain from an injury you suffered years ago, go to a pain MD, not the ER. we treat injuries, not pain med appetites.
daprez1963 3 days ago
I was just in the ER lst week from a horrible tetanus shot reaction-had a cold sore when got the shot-which made that cold sore turn into a lip the size of a baseball w/some horrible looking stuff that a cold sore never had and it was blowing up my whole face. YOU want to talk about pain?I didn't even ask for anything. Doc asked ME if I had anything for pain and I told him I already take pain med. for chronic pain so i dn't need. I NEEDED novacain in that lip as much as it wldv killed-it was bad
keliciousify 2 weeks ago
@keliciousify I find all this uproarious humor directed at other's misfortune - people who really experience pain - pitiful
iatrogenicsteve 1 week ago
@iatrogenicsteve what is pitiful is actual pain caused by the misuse of healthcare system. we r not legal drug dealers. the waiting room & er exam rooms r 4 legit people w/ actual pain from recent injury. not back pain from 10 yrs ago. we're no longer allowed in Florida 2 prescribe pain medication for chronic pain since we're not registered w/ the state & is now illegal 4 us 2. that is up 2 a pain management doctor who is. lawmakers are getting tough on these issues.
daprez1963 3 days ago
@daprez1963 LOL these are great~!
keliciousify 2 weeks ago
Dang. That explains it. Anyone with 9 kids has to be in chronic pain.
alnewberry 4 weeks ago
@alnewberry anyone with nine kids either needs to know about contraception, abortion or sexual restraint
iatrogenicsteve 1 week ago
Hahahahaha
Nini606m 1 month ago
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This video is so funny! check out: va er nurse vs cold nuts xtranormal
Netsuj123 1 month ago
This is a typical night in my er
d4rk4ngel132 1 month ago
ik shes preggy
usher671 2 months ago
wow so true I have run into some crazy patients like this...lol...except they look at me like I'm the crazy one with a problem...like they know my job better than me...lol
ccw0413 2 months ago
I don't understand about the Phenerghan. I take it as need for nausea. Why would she ask for that? Maybe I am missing something in the video.
But I know this happens very often in hospital. Addiction is a disease that will make you do anything. I used to be one. I used to frequent different hospitals. And rarely would they NOT give me a narcotic. I only got rejected a couple times. But I'm not proud of it at all. Plus I never got pushy like the woman in the video. But I don't doubt that it hap
Komisgirl79 4 months ago
I am an ER doc in a small town and we get these daily too. Its so sad.....I tell them they can cope most times without dope.....
Officerdoc 5 months ago
When did Morgan Freeman become an ER doc?
ZDoggMD 5 months ago
Typical Medicaid pt doing what they do best!
Popanator2010 5 months ago
Not sure what all the hubbub is about. As an ER employee I can tell you that this is LAUGHABLY accurate! We have to laugh or we will eventually nut up... I wish this were hyperbole, but its not. I see this ALL THE TIME. The only think they left out was the woman asking for a turkey sandwich...
williac747 6 months ago
In case you missed these comment earlier....here it is again.
weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_15700.shtml
In a nutshell...A physician faces life in prison, for drug & health care fraud charges. Doctor Robert Bourlier operated "Internal Medicine" on Hwy98.
He was convicted of 17 counts of health care fraud & over one hundred counts of unlawful dispensing of controlled substances.
He prescribed drugs to patients that were not needed, & two of his patients died from it.
daprez1963 6 months ago
@daprez1963 You write this as if it's an indictment of doctors when the problems are the patients and DEA policies. In terms of Medical Standards of Practice, pain can't be objectified no matter what records are presented. And prescription medications aren't always well-suited or appropriate to the patient; this doesn't necessarily the doctor knew or intended it to be so.
iatrogenicsteve 1 week ago
@gwbian22 Charts and prior visit history is viewed as an aide. If a person were to continually come in with this "fathom" abdominal pain that is not explainable by any test we perform, than it does become suspicious and viewed as a drug seeker and the pt is advised that you will not be getting any narcs and told to follow up with their PCP to be given a referral to a pain management doctor for further treatments and told to have a good day (along with "don't bother coming here again" speech)...
daprez1963 6 months ago
It is sad that there are people out there like that. They make life HELL for the rare chronic pain patient who goes to the ER. I have pain that is adequately managed for the most part. However, the times it DOES get out of control I NEVER have gone to the ER. I couldn't take the possible shame of being treated like I was one of THOSE people when I have a valid, painful illness that I have managed with my PCP for several years now. :(
wuzzittoya 6 months ago 2
@daprez1963 As a chronic pain patient but am also semi-sane, so I can see both sides of this issue. It's a difficult issue, and there really ARE people who have chronic pain and have very bad pain flares. To a chronic pain patient, these pain flares ARE an emergency. But to ER doctors, an acute problem (a broken bone, a back injury, a serious wound) is a real emergency. Without labs or scans to back it up, most ERs just aren't equipped to diagnose and treat pain. Chronic pain needs a pain dr.
beloved828 7 months ago
@daprez1963 As an ER nurse, what you say is very true....but it is ultimately up to the physicians in ALL ers to stop this. We all have some that will give whatever the patient wants some of the time if not all of the time. The information needs to be given at an Emergency Room Physician conference and maybe we will make some head way. I totally agree with you but as a nurse it comes down to the few who are capable of prescribing the meds.
cwb5582 7 months ago
I live with chronic pain and these are the people that make it impossible for me to get the medicine I need. smh
captainmorgan1973 7 months ago
@captainmorgan1973 They sure do. I suffered for years and wound up needing several surgeries to manage my illness, and I feel that it could have been prevented if someone had taken my pain seriously, rather than just thinking that I wanted pills because I was young. Young does not equal healthy. And pain is a sign that something is wrong. I wish that there were non-opioid pain meds that worked as well as the ones all the seekers want. There just aren't right now. :(
beloved828 7 months ago
...we should spank adults.
kotetsu131 8 months ago
I was a taker for many years ! Now I take the Suboxone I am 39 yrs old . I got tired of being sick all the time an missing out on life . An i told on my self to each doctor what i was doing . An their comment was ok thats great u stop they said if u need us an cant make it just give us a call back . A lot of this stuff is doctors faults as long as u give them the money they will keep on handing them scripts out I could go one place an a hour later go to another place an fill 2 or 3 scripts of
Stephaniehopson77 8 months ago
@Stephaniehopson77 You think we get paid to prescribe narcotics??? Please!!!! I would pay to not have to deal with a drug seeker! Most of us get paid by the hour, just so you know! ER's ARE NOT PAIN CLINICS! Don't make remarks if you have no idea what you are talking about! BY the way, drug seeker don't pay bills so we don't get a dime from them! An absolute waste of time and resources!
bluesrp 7 months ago
They gave me dilaudid once. I was there for injury from seizure. Dilaudid is horrible. Scared the hell out of me. I can't see why anyone would want that pushed fast. But then, there are a huge amount of severe er patients that refuse to go to er because of this problem
datsfunnychit 8 months ago
@daprez1963 I watch people drown themselves in alcohol and cigarettes every day. The government seems to enjoy passing those things out. Another few years of Obama, and we will all need Oxycontin in our breakfast cereal.
BlueStateChronicle 9 months ago
BTW.....here is another NEWS FLASH about pill mills... this should be a wake call to them:
weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_15700.shtml
daprez1963 9 months ago
BTW...to the nut who thinks he is actually going to become a MD & prescribe himself & everyone else that WANTS (not need) pain medication:
A physician in Destin faces life in prison, for drug & health care fraud charges. Doctor Robert Bourlier operated "Internal Medicine" on Hwy 98.
He was convicted of 17 counts of health care fraud & over one hundred counts of unlawful dispensing of controlled substances.
He prescribed drugs to patients that were not needed, & two of his patients died from it.
daprez1963 9 months ago
And they always ask that you push the phenergan and diaudid fast for the high. Sad part is when there is something wrong, we sometimes miss it.
sixfirefish 9 months ago
I won't go to er for this reason. Had severe accident & it took forever. When you're laying in a hall bleeding (head trauma then epilepsy) & patient room is filled with laughing patient, visitors & vending machine food. You get pissed.
datsfunnychit 9 months ago
Classic Narco Seeker. Good Job.
Classic scenarios : I have pain, I can't function. Blah. Blah. I wonder why Pygmy does not ask why these meds are not OTC.
If it's so unbearable 24/7 go ahead with selective ganglion transaction and I guarantee you a painless partially handicapped life. Face it, they are psychologically and physically dependent on it. Yet, It's amazing how the can function in Jail without Narcs.
bodyworxlv 9 months ago
@bodyworxlv They don't have to function in jail without drugs. People get shit into jail that would stun the crap out of you.
Kairuka 3 months ago
@AstroPygmy GUN+BULLET+HEAD=RELIEF
daprez1963 9 months ago
@AstroPygmy Then why isn't your PCP controlling it w/ pain mgmt or rehab? Why should someone rely on ER for something thats known to be hurting & already been treated for since 18 yrs of age? I love it when someone comes in & says they have backpain & have had it 10 years yet have never gone anywhere for treatment nor have a family doctor. What the heck made it all of a sudden a priority to come to the ER and wait in the lobby, laughing on the phone while eating a combo meal from Burger King?
daprez1963 9 months ago
@sdtuu While you assume a lot of things, make no mistake about this....EVERYONE should be angry with people who abuse the Health System because in the long run, we ALL pay for it with higher cost in premiums and prescription costs. All there stupid wasteful visits to the ER simply to get addicting drugs that they can not get from their PCP because the red flags were raised long ago and they refuse to give any more. Little do they know, these narcotics are monitored as well by Walgreens etc.
daprez1963 9 months ago
ALL DOCTORS KNOW THAT PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S DO NOT EXPERIENCE CHRONIC PAIN, NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!
ihatefatpeople7 9 months ago
@ihatefatpeople7 wow, you could not be more wrong. Age is but a number, sickness shows no mercy. I had Fibermyalga at 19. That is not pain? GO PLAY IN TRAFFIC RETARD. END OF CONVERSATION!
cool3929 7 months ago
@cool3929 Don't feed the troll.
Kairuka 3 months ago
@cool3929 your the retard for believing that you had "Fibermyalga" (btw it's spelled Fibromyalgia) Go take your Lyrica and Percocets or whatever Opiates your on. You Fucking wastoid
TheAjsdaddy 1 month ago
@TheAjsdaddy You are a waste of life! I don't take opiates. I take 1 pill a day and that is Ibprofun. Man, I would love to talk to your parents and tell your dad you should have been a hand job!! END OF DISCUSSION! I will not feed into a ignorant inbred!
cool3929 1 month ago
@Bevin313 This video is not saying that patients with chronic pain are drug seekers. Drug seeker use this diagnosis even if they have never been diagnosed with it to get what they want. You have no idea how frequent this is, and they act exactly they way is represented in this video...demanding, irrational, inconsistent and incredibly disrespectful. And I'm talking about DRUG SEEKERS, not about patients with real medical problems.
bluesrp 10 months ago
@bluesrp But, man, is it hard to tell the difference between drug seekers and those with real medical issues. I've had 7 surgeries to deal with endometrosis and a host of other issues stemming from it, and have lost a total of 5 organs, which includes a full hysterectomy. And I have chronic pain due to the scarring that just won't stop coming. Yet I am treated like a drug seeker by my local hospital because every so often, for a few days I have pain that my meds don't control.
beloved828 7 months ago
@Bevin313 Now its time to ban you from here. We have heard enough BS from you. You are a self proclaimed drug seeker who thinks lawyers can force doctors to hand out narcs. That is 100% BS. Wake up from your fantasy before your life passes you by. Sure, doctors take an oath to treat their pts. That doesn't include making them drug addicts....
daprez1963 10 months ago
Why aren't pharmaceuticals more strictly controlled? It seems like a lot of the abuses of emergency rooms and hospitals is from drug seekers. If so, why not make it much more difficult to prescribe these medications?
baaadbart 10 months ago
@baaadbart The simple fact is there are legitimate people out there with pain that follow the instructions provided by their PCP and actually benefit from the use of these drugs. Its the ones that abuse them that make it harder on us by tying up the ER with their addiction problem. Its usually obvious who is abusing them but sometimes it is not.
daprez1963 10 months ago 2
She's the reason why I have a complimentary plastic vial of Mike-n-Ike's labeled "chill pills" at my pharmacy. What the doctor goes through here is half of what pharmacists have to deal with.
thebingaman 10 months ago
They should play this on a tv in every ER waiting room across North America.
crapstacker5 10 months ago
they are screwed up in the head, and doctors don't have time to deal with people like this who will refuse real help anyway. they're taking away from time that can be used to help people in immediate need.
swilt85 11 months ago
this is taking too fucking long. hahaahha
born2broadway 11 months ago
you have terrible bed-side-manners. haha. i love the talking robot bitch haha god it kills me when baked.
born2broadway 11 months ago
And......Obamacare is going to make our hospitals better????????????? People have no idea what we see
nancydrew1930 11 months ago
the problem with frequent fliers is the stupid govenrment has given too much power to the people regarding the control of their pain. They know we are obligated to treat their pain as it is as pts "perceive it". ER staff know its all bullshit and doctors should be given just as much freedom to minimally medicate or with hold medication. If your pain is a 10 and yet you are sitting up in the stretcher, calmly speaking to staff, your visitor, or on the cell phone, you are NOT in that much pain.
crnacrn07 11 months ago
LMAO!
xSimplyAmusedx 11 months ago
@RonRiverRat
I have seen pills/capsules actually labeled "Placebo". :-)
Tsyroc 11 months ago 2
LMAOOOO I love these videos, they are exactly what we deal with day in and day out several times a day.
vgarvin35 1 year ago
How often would we like to call our pts Miss frequent flyer?
730andrea 1 year ago 2
these kinds of patients deserve the least but demand the most. the emergency rooms are no longer for emergencies but are another free ride for the dysfunctional people of our communities.
nursebabe1 1 year ago
it's a funny video, yes...but you then have the opposite sometimes...docs who hand out percocets like pez.
pika23 1 year ago
bitch forgot to ask to talk to a patient advocate
BKHENRY1 1 year ago 6
gwbian08 is a drug seeker.
joshift 1 year ago
LMAO@ 2:40!
idigcars 1 year ago
Smack/Crack heads
tetramoo 1 year ago
Hahaha! What's with the sound of random gunshots going off? Anyone else hear that, or is it just me? lol
MandieRenee07 1 year ago
@daprez1963 I totally agree with you... at 67DieHardPatriot454 Get over it... that is a reality that is prevalent in the ER, like where i work... you can actually tell people who really are in pain and who are just faking it... Most of the time... it shows in their Vital Signs if they really are in Pain... and if you consider Us not taking care of patient with a 12 visits in a month for pain medicine, then we don't know what to tell you.... except they're Junkies!!!!
onniey 1 year ago
favorite line "this is taking too fucking long call the god damn ambulance and i wiill go to another hosptial on my way home" LMAO
AkwardEmoBunni 1 year ago
If America had a decent healthcare system, these people wouldn't have to abuse the ER to get basic help.
stupidjunk878 1 year ago
@stupidjunk878 it will be worse once obama's healthcare gets into full effect
kyrieann07 1 year ago
@stupidjunk878 Calm down asshole. This is a funny video with a lot of truth in it, not a staging ground for your anti-American bullshit.
dirtydodger 1 year ago 4
@stupidjunk878 - moron, you missed the point...anyway, these numbskulls don't "HAVE" to abuse the ER;
they "CHOOSE" to..... got a million examples after working for years in an ER. My favorite- the illegal mexican who brought her 6 children to the ER (there were five family surnames) to have them "checked" because their cousin who lived 75 miles away in Austin, had contracted pneumonia 3-weeks ago!!! I took great pleasure in reporting her rude - obnoxious - ass!!!! Get a grip moron!!!
ContinuosChange 1 year ago 2
that black guy sounds white lol
hellokitty12 1 year ago
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I have worked in e ER for years and yes while things almost this bad happen each day, I don't like that in each of these videos it is a woman who is the drug seeker. We actually have a lot of men who do this as well. Women's pain and symptoms are often under diagnosed and ignored and these video just reinforce the attitude all women are faking for drugs. Men on the other hand seem to be given whatever they ask for no questions asked because certainly a man would lie about pain or symptoms.
MattyE1987 1 year ago
LMAO So Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!
mluchen 1 year ago
What a hoot. 35 years ago~ 2 tylenol and icepack and send them on their way!!!!
dencentco 1 year ago
Whoever wrote this ... works in the ER
DrDankoff 1 year ago
ahahahaha "while watching a medical show"
Ariegiggles 1 year ago
And all this time I thought these pts were unique to our ED!
wittybritgirl 1 year ago
BRILLIANT~~~~
mistoffnino 1 year ago
My Nana cant get enough of these, she meets grey hobo's and druggys everyday of her wonderful sunshiney life! ~Mo
BloodyMorbidMachine 1 year ago
someone needs to do one of mom bringing kid in for wheezing and you know they have a nebulizer at home,you ask them how many tx" did you give at home and they say none. i want to sooo bad to say "HERE'S YOUR SIGN'
sandhilldiva 1 year ago
How true
Raiderusmaximus 1 year ago
LOL! I wish we were allowed to address our patients as "Ms. Frequent Flyer".
TheBambulanceDriver 1 year ago 22
"You are so rudeYou have very bad bedside matters."
Gamaliel87 1 year ago 3
haha these videos are so funny!!! most likely true
TheStonerFace 1 year ago
Now you know why I quit practicing. This is all too real. These videos should be mandatory for all lawyers and judges.
robandcecit 1 year ago
omg you have to watch this is funny
safesinger 1 year ago
Ok, I've seen on other people saying that health care providers making these videos are why our med. System sucks.... DUDE... if you worked with this kind of thing EVERY NIGHT, I'm sure you need an outlet. They don't say it is a specific patient or anything to give away any identities.l I think its brilliant and its nice to know what our medical system HAS to deal with. Well done! I love these videos
AlienXCherie 1 year ago 5
Had the same case at my GP surgery the other day, Patient brought in a "sample" in a jar that she claimed she had coughed up from her lungs which looked very much like blue bubblegum, the foolish Dr sent it off as sputum for Mc&s but thankfully denied her the oxynorm she came for!
bels10 1 year ago
Genius, dude. Pure genius. For those of you who have never been an ER staff and find this hard to believe, believe it! This DOES happen, waaaaay too often.
KrisGarwood 1 year ago
LOL I had a patient wanting to speak with the CEO as well.
kmarzfg 1 year ago
Haha this is spot on
kmarzfg 1 year ago
so sad...i can't wait for the day when there is a clinically proven potent pain med that is non-narcotic and non-euphoric and non-allergenic! these people are parasites!!!
jfinan71 1 year ago 2
i hate drug seekers that waste our time. so ghetto. the ob one is like half our patients.
ameericanpakwife 1 year ago
Couldn't have said it better myself! Amen for someone saying it like it is. Only those of us that have worked ER can likely understand the craziness we deal with!
annahhouklondon 1 year ago
i wish providers could say patients are a pain in the ass to their face
fiercex 1 year ago 4
ROFL
Chantelle4BillieJoe 1 year ago
LOL
dona4jc 1 year ago
This is true we see this every night ,this is whats wrong with health care ppl on welfare take the medics in for ear infection they abuse the ER but we cant crap about it , i hope someday ppl will take reposnblty for them self
graywolfmnld2008 1 year ago 2
And they are all so poor, not! They have cell phones, gold teeth, Cadillacs and no jobs. Thank God for welfare, food coupons, no visible means of support, dead end mail addresses. Never get a penny out of them. so may I be blunt? them refers to the african americans who suck the system dry.
gomezesmorticia 1 year ago 2
This is a text book example of why Triage nurses should be authorized to carry a .45.
11Bee3O 1 year ago 73
@11Bee3O don't forget the illegal aliens, those from Bosnia, Russia, Israel, the Middle East, Africa, need I go on? They don't pay their bills, have no insurance. But God forbid that I forget to pay my bill, I get a nasty letter from the hospital.
gomezesmorticia 1 year ago 2
@11Bee3O hahahahaha
PatTheAnchor 1 year ago
She forgot the Gout. that's good for some vikey
VeryBadWitch 1 year ago
Hits the nail on the head! Health care reform should start with reforming patients abusing emergency services and resources! Doctors are subject to malpractice claims from vulture plaintiff attorneys, but patients are have no accountability whatsoever in our health care system!
wisedrdave 1 year ago 3
See this all the time in ER's all across the country. This is the Health care reform that Prez Obama should be spending his time fixing!
BloomingMom 2 years ago 5
@BloomingMom
he is by giving everyone insurance so they don't have to come to the er for their primary care. how is he going to take care of individual cases of drug addicts.
PRICKSTER44 1 year ago
This is hilarious and so damn true! I especially love the fact she orders a food tray!! Could not be any more true!
erinejett 2 years ago 2
This a classic, I work in the ED and see all of these hypochondriacs. It's too bad euthanasia is not legal.
gomezesmorticia1 2 years ago 3
@gomezesmorticia1 the sad thing is they always get admitted and 98% of the drs out theire go right along with it...
ammccarter 1 year ago
WOW. Is this how the doctors see patients....This is funny but these people need psychological treatment NOT narcotics
Correctivemind 2 years ago
No, this is how we see drug seekers and crazies that habitually abuse us in the ER. Yes, they need psych help but we can't force it on them. These kinds of people use up resources, time, energy and compassion that our real patients deserve.
drewas55 2 years ago 67
@drewas55 Agree
ginaven1 7 months ago
thats great
TheTexasFiremedic 2 years ago 2