Policing of patients

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I have had exactly the opposite problem here, doctors trying to push very high dosages of strong narcotic pain medication on me, instead of helping me address the underlying problem or find other ways to manage the pain. Bay clinic, urgent care, and the emergency room have all tried to send me home with prescriptions for really strong drugs. When I was in the Emergency room with a kidney stone they had me on such a potent IV drip I kept forgetting to breath, my husband was watching the oxygen monitor and every time it dropped too low he would have to bring me back out of the narcotic fog to get me to start breathing again. I felt like they used a sledge hammer where a fly swatter would have worked.

Carol