Why does eastern Kentucky have one of the highest murder rates in the country?

[Hauldren Collider]

Are you kidding? The ER in Lynchburg has absolutrly no qualms about giving a 6 year old with a sore throat Percocet.

Weird. Somehow I don't think anyone at Inova here in Fairfax would consider prescribing percocet to a 6 year old under almost any circumstances. I've been there a few times. Then again, I don't work there and I'm not a doctor.

Side note, I remember being very amused one time when driving down the interstate in Virginia I saw a sign that said "Blacksburg, x miles Lynchburg, y miles"

[Dr Strangelove]

It was probably Interstate 81, but Lynchburg isn't on Interstate 81. There's a sign on Interstate 81 that gives the mileage to Virginia Beach. It was erected especially for the movie "Deep Impact" for the scene where people are fleeing the coast. It's not where you'd normally put such a sign. Interstate 81 does connect to Interstate 64, which ends at Virginia Beach, but the sign is where they filmed the sequence of people getting out of their cars to scramble up the mountain as the wall of water starts rushing inland. That was filmed in southwest Virginia something like 100 miles from the intersection between 81 and 64. Apparently they forgot to take the sign down after filming.

[Guynemer]

Are you kidding? The ER in Lynchburg has absolutrly no qualms about giving a 6 year old with a sore throat Percocet.

What the actual ****?

[Dinner]

Eastern Kentucky is coal mining country, but they are hardly mining any coal right now because those bastards in Wyoming can get to theirs for cheaper.

I believe there is also the issue of natural gas prices falling to record lows due to fracking opening up vast new supplies of natural gas. When you combine the rock bottom low prices in natural gas with its lower emissions then you get a powerful combo of market forces pushing demand for coal down. So far Wyoming's coal mines have survived well but they're relaying more and more on exporting it to China rather than selling it domestically as more and more new power plants in the US use natural gas instead of coal even while old coal plants get shut down.

[Elok]

What the actual ****?

"Here ya go, Billy. It's like naptime...in a pill. With happy dreams!"

[korn469]

Eastern Kentucky is coal mining country, but they are hardly mining any coal right now because those bastards in Wyoming can get to theirs for cheaper.

Yeah, many coal mines have either petered out or have shut down due to competition from cheaper coal, natural gas, and whatever else, but the coal culture lingers on. I was there in October, and people were mad as hell about Obama's war on coal. I saw a few pro Romney signs, a handful of pro Obama signs, and tons and tons of pro coal signs. If somehow coal could have ran against Obama, it would have carried where I'm from. Though, I think even if natural gas went away due to water concerns, and clean coal technology really had a breakthrough that the mining might come back, but the jobs are gone and people don't get it. There was a coal boom that spread the wealth around starting in the late '40s and going to the mid to late '80s. Before then you had a large amount of miners but it was dangerous low paying work and now you have only a few highly paid miners that are quite productive due to automation. The downturn in coal has impacted members of my family, and I hate it.

Also it's too easy to get pills, and many will write you a prescription for them over nearly anything. My brother had hurt himself one night (his shoulder I think) and went to the emergency room, and instead of doing an exam, they offered to write him a prescription for oxy's. He told them that he wanted them to check out his shoulder, and since they weren't going to he left. People will rob pharmacies, steal the pills from other members of their family who have a presciption, buy them, whore themselves out for them, they always seem to find them.

[Hauldren Collider]

It was probably Interstate 81, but Lynchburg isn't on Interstate 81. There's a sign on Interstate 81 that gives the mileage to Virginia Beach. It was erected especially for the movie "Deep Impact" for the scene where people are fleeing the coast. It's not where you'd normally put such a sign. Interstate 81 does connect to Interstate 64, which ends at Virginia Beach, but the sign is where they filmed the sequence of people getting out of their cars to scramble up the mountain as the wall of water starts rushing inland. That was filmed in southwest Virginia something like 100 miles from the intersection between 81 and 64. Apparently they forgot to take the sign down after filming.

Yes, it was I-81. I think I was going to Lexington, but I don't remember.

Also, I saw that movie. Apparently, VDOT bent over backwards for them--lent them an AM radio transmitter to coordinate the scene with the drivers, for instance.

[Dr Strangelove]

What the actual ****?

You're behind the times old man. If you don't watch it you're going to get sued for depriving your patients of their right to a decent income, er, I mean, their right to adequate pain relief.

[DinoDoc]

Are you kidding? The ER in Lynchburg has absolutrly no qualms about giving a 6 year old with a sore throat Percocet.

Citation needed.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Went to my doc about two weeks ago for a possible sinus infection. Basically wanted an antibiotic, but he was willing to give me:

1. Sample nose spray and a script for it.
2. Script for cough syrup.
3. A corticosteroid pack for swelling?
4. Asked me if I needed anything for pain.

I left with antibiotics only. Oh and the nose spray sample.

[Guynemer]

Hate to break it to you, but antibiotics are not indicated for the majority of sinus infections.

[Elok]

You're behind the times old man. If you don't watch it you're going to get sued for depriving your patients of their right to a decent income, er, I mean, their right to adequate pain relief.

You mean... our drug problem creates jobs? Well, that's a horse of a different color, isn't it?

[kentonio]

Went to my doc about two weeks ago for a possible sinus infection. Basically wanted an antibiotic, but he was willing to give me:

1. Sample nose spray and a script for it.
2. Script for cough syrup.
3. A corticosteroid pack for swelling?
4. Asked me if I needed anything for pain.

I left with antibiotics only. Oh and the nose spray sample.

Wtf?!

[Ben Kenobi]

Hate to break it to you, but antibiotics are not indicated for the majority of sinus infections.

What are you a doctor or something? Clearly an antibiotic was designed to kill the common cold and influenza.

[regexcellent]

I went to an emergency care clinic once after I jumped down the stairs and ****ed up my ankle. Tendonitis developed like a week later and I could barely walk. Left with a prescription for some kind of steroid and super duper 600mg motrin pills. I wasn't even offered narcotics.

I took the steroid precisely as directed, tapering the dosage off each day, and it was pretty much magical stuff. It worked great.