WOW my primary care writes me scrips for 120 per scrip even under the new law as long as scrip is written properly it is filled. I think the class you had to take was because the doctor wanted you to take it.
I never had to take a class on pain management to continue to get pain meds.
My primary has no problems treating pain if need be. If it can be proven medically you need treatment.
What I do not use I lock up in a safe a store for future surgeries just in case. I've kept evey scrip of pain meds. If stored properly they will pretty much last for ever. My pharmacist taught me that. It does not hurt I've been friends with my pharmacist for 22 years either.
I'm a prepper with drugs for medical purposes. No one has access to my safe but me too. Plus no one knows that I have these in my safe but myself and my wife. I've discovered that IF people find out you have narcotics pain meds
They will makeup reasons to try and get them from you. My back hurts, this hurts, that hurts can you spare a few. When you say no. They blow up and get really mad. WHY they ask. I tell them if they hurt that damn bad go see a doctor. Taking a pill is not going to fix them.
That was years ago when I had my first back operations.
I keep my medical supplies for myself for emergency purposes
But I always carry extra meds with me to the hospital just in case. I has 2 years od pharmacology. Plus EXTENSIVE training as a medic with Fire Rescue. Just in case something like what happened to me. Just like what took place this past week. This was the first time that ever happened.
Like I stated earlier. When I transported a patient that was injuried. I made sure their pain was manageable before taking them inside to the ER. I gave them as much Fentanyl as I could before going inside. Because I knew how they would be treated in the ER. I've seen things that would make your blood boil.
Nurses can not intubate patients. They have to wait for a anesthesiologist to do it. So they'd just bag them.
We could intubate pretty much do everything the ER doctor could do on the rescue units. Push drugs everything
I've seen for a fact a patient die because the people working on the patient had no damn idea what they were doing. Even trying to intubate her while she was awake. You cannot do that. You have a gag reflex.
She vomited because she was awake and these idiots were trying to shove a tube down her throat. The vomit got into her lungs. She dies an hour later from complications. She also had a broken arm from them trying to hold her down.
They would not let me do it because I did not work at hospital. I transport a patient there and watched it. They got tired of waiting for anesthesiologist and said HEY LET'S TRY IT.
I will never ever trust nurses. Most are stupid and are there just to collect a pay check. They cannot do anything unless they are told to by a doctor.
Now there's a difference between highly train specialize nurses. That are highly trained in emergency medicine and medical care. Likr trauma nurses ect. Don't confuse these nurses with floor nurses.