For Guynemer and Dr. Strangelove

[Guynemer]

No, I was just curious what the local doctors thought of overprescription of painkillers.

It makes me feel very neck-stabby.

[Lorizael]

It makes me feel very neck-stabby.

There's a pill for that.

[pchang]

Toradol

[Dr Strangelove]

Mmmmmmhmmm.

I have literally never written an opioid prescription since starting my practice. Not one.

You've never given a 9 year old Percocet for strep throat? What kind of monster are you? Don't you care about how your patients feel? How willl they know you really care unless they get that endorphin high feeling whenever they think of you?

While that article may be The Onion it pretty much describes the current state of practice of medicine in America. For the past 15 years the powers that be in America have continually told us that we're just not managing pain well enough despite the fact that the death rate from prescription opiods has increased 5 fold, the US now consumes 80% of the worlds' production of opiods, 20% of the population take opiods on a regular basis and 40% will take a prescription of opiods at least once this year.

[Dr Strangelove]

A pediatrician is the wrong sort of doctor to ask.

You will never be licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Viriginia.

[KrazyHorse]

I had fun with the 30 percs I was given when they pulled my wisdom teeth.

[The Mad Monk]

I save my T3 tabs for migraines.

[Sava]

I found oxy to be highly overrated and very uneventful. The ****tiest weed I ever smoked was more fun than that.

[Elok]

Percocet was fun when I took it for my wisdom teeth. But it's not something I'd be tempted to abuse, honestly. You feel pleasantly sleepy, and that's nice, but I wouldn't want to be like that on a regular basis.

[Guynemer]

You will never be licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Viriginia.

Thank ****ing Christ.

[snoopy369]

Percocet was fun when I took it for my wisdom teeth. But it's not something I'd be tempted to abuse, honestly. You feel pleasantly sleepy, and that's nice, but I wouldn't want to be like that on a regular basis.

So you're saying it's like having kids, except you actually _can_ go to sleep?

[Hauldren Collider]

You will never be licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Viriginia.

Deeply skeptical. I mean, for ****'s sake, you really think Virginia is worse than Ohio when it comes to prescription painkillers?

[snoopy369]

I know this is Apolyton, so facts aren't appropriate; but http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreation...ef/states.html suggests that neither VA nor OH are particularly bad, compared to their friendly neighbor West Virginia.

That said, I'm going to trust the licensed and practicing doctor over the college student on this one (though if this were about weed the opposite might be more appropriate ) Doc never did say that VA was the worst state, just that it was bad objectively.

[Kidlicious]

T3s gave me horrible hangovery feeling. I could never abuse them.

[Hauldren Collider]

I know this is Apolyton, so facts aren't appropriate; but http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreation...ef/states.html suggests that neither VA nor OH are particularly bad, compared to their friendly neighbor West Virginia.

That said, I'm going to trust the licensed and practicing doctor over the college student on this one (though if this were about weed the opposite might be more appropriate ) Doc never did say that VA was the worst state, just that it was bad objectively.

Doc's exaggerated a number of things here before. Such as how somehow some nonexistant food stamp interruption resulted in a number of patient visits. I'm not inclined to trust him on this.

Furthermore, Guynemer is licensed in Ohio, so there is an implicit comparison. Do you really believe in Virginia you can't get licensed if you aren't handing out percocet for ****ing strep throat? For ****'s sake. I know for a fact my pediatrician would have never ever have done that.