Originally published at: Atlanta mass shooter arrested after killing one woman and injuring 5 at area hospital | Boing Boing
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Ammosexuals: “pay no attention to the easy availability of guns!”
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Did she tell him not to bring his gun?
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Perhaps your son should not have had a gun.
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While the easy availability of guns is a clear element in this tragedy, I can also testify to the increasing hesitancy.to use appropriate, but potentially addictive, medications to treat patients. There are much worse stories of terminally ill patients being denied opioids in their final days due to concerns about addiction. I cannot speak to this particular case, obviously, and nothing would justify the outcome. It’s just the state of medicine today. We all practice with the fear of law enforcement looming over our shoulders. In peds, we will not prescribe opioids for anything outpatient, which has pretty obvious consequences for some kids, but the position taken by most is that opioids are not indicated for typical outpatient pain control in kids, at all. Add in that the mental healthcare system has crumbled, and you set up this sort of thing.
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Can confirm that people with chronic pain are treated like potential junkies. I watched that Dopesick series and heard the doctors on there repeat what I heard my doctors back then tell me. They set up this whole crisis for greed.
I probably am technically addicted to my pain killer. Not in the sense that I get high from it, but in the sense that if I don’t take it have withdrawal symptoms. But so what? My quality of life and ability to function is close to normal on it. The cause of my pain is never going away with out some medical miracle.
I get the point of not wanting to over prescribe drugs, but like you said, “We all practice with the fear of law enforcement looming over our shoulders” shouldn’t be how doctors practice medicine.
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