This is how bad it's gotten

[corpsmanUP]

Oh, as for the Demerol....I am with you guys on the euphoria it causes but when I was in the service it was the only injectable pain medication on formulary in our clinic, other than Toradol. So Demerol and Valium it was. Now in civi land we have Nubain, which seems to be less desirable to the seekers so they usually throw a fit and get cured miraculously only to storm out when previously they were writhing in pain.

 

[BKN]

Oh, as for the Demerol....I am with you guys on the euphoria it causes but when I was in the service it was the only injectable pain medication on formulary in our clinic, other than Toradol. So Demerol and Valium it was. Now in civi land we have Nubain, which seems to be less desirable to the seekers so they usually throw a fit and get cured miraculously only to storm out when previously they were writhing in pain.

On the other hand, I knew a doc who was injecting nubain into his carotid cause he wanted it all to his CNS, didn't want to waste any on the rest of his corpus.😱

 

[RuralMedicine]

My hospital does not even stock Demerol. It eliminates the seekers coming to the ED for its euphoric effect. The fact that we do not even stock Demerol eliminates any possibility of a practitioner prescribing it.

4 of the 5 institutions we rotated through as residents did not stock Demerol either. Now I'm trying to convince our ED physicians that there are more suitable and safer options in the year 2006. Two of my colleagues and I actually petitioned P&T to remove it from our hospital formulary---we'll see how that goes.

 

[GoofyDoc]

Equally as annoying as the drug seekers are the patients who demand brand name drugs. Recently while I was in the pharmacy waiting for a prescription to be filled, an old lady walked in with a script for Synthroid. She told the pharmacist how she was finally getting the real stuff as her doctor had prescribed a generic before but it "didn't work" and so she demanded the brand name medication. 🙄