Tuesday, February 24, 2009

red flag...

if you want to get your medical provider suspicious about your narcotic pain medication use, says something like this...

"i'm really not a pill person, really, i'm not...i'm mean, i don't usually take pain pills, but...phew...i just don't take pain pills..."{sigh of enormous proportion}

"...can i have something stronger, i'm mean this pain is really bad..." (as patient calmly sits in front of you showing no sign of distress)

"...the pain was sooo bad, i had to take my mom's medicine that she had from her last surgery..."

am I compassionate? yes

am I stupid? no

1 comment:

park it said...

at my dads office it was always..I am allergic to Codine - I am allergic to xyz - but not (insert very strong pain pill here)

uuuuhhhhh NOPE!