Have a patient with a ruptured cervical disc awaiting pain management consult.
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My prescription for acute pain medicine - which already listed a diagnosis code and the other treatments that we had tried and had failed - was arbitrarily cut in half because I didn’t write the words “medical necessity”.
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Yet guidelines like the CDC’s on opioid dosage are being treated like law by (terrified) doctors and medical centers alike. While patients suffer.
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I completely agree. Guidelines are helpful when created by healthcare professionals. When those guidelines become rules, the needs of individual patients are discounted and the trust in prescribers is eroded. Pain management is never "one size fits all".
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I’m with you. I’m happy to have them be an insurer, even though purse strings give them some say (it’s not like private insurers arbitrary decisions are any better). Granular decision making over medical care however is a terrible precedent, unfortunately set by prolifers.
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How about legislation that prevents healthcare laws being written without the input of actual healthcare providers
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