I think all of them except for Dr. Hume (Reply #32)

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Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:16 PM

32. I think all of them except for Dr. Hume

were complete idiots.

I think part of the problem is I really couldn't pinpoint anything that precipitated the start of the pain. I just woke up one morning with pain in the knee.

There wasn't anything I could pinpoint as the event that caused the pain.

Dr. Hume said that he could tell from the x-ray and the space between the bones that I had significant osteoarthritis. An x-ray is a pretty inexpensive diagnostic tool. It seems to me that any of the first three doctors could have x-rayed my knee and discovered the problem and I would have not had to endure 3 months of severe pain.

At least my original doctor never assumed I was just trying to get drugs, even if he only prescribed Tylenol for the pain.

The ones I blame the most were Dr. Lee and Dr. Jerk.

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33 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why hasnt the opioid epidemic hit other countries? [View all]	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2017	OP
They have hospitals, where addicts can get help.	shenmue	Dec 2017	#1
Years ago, if I remember correctly, it was the then East Germany that led	Sophia4	Dec 2017	#2
An awful lot of the homeless are opioid addicts	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2017	#5
Is it only the US medical system?	malaise	Dec 2017	#3
There is this	Bear Creek	Dec 2017	#20
Excellent point	malaise	Dec 2017	#23
I don't know about the population distribution elsewhere	loyalsister	Dec 2017	#4
I wonder to what degree doctor-shopping is tolerated in other countries.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#6
i hate to break it to you, but you're probably hurting more people than you're helping. you've alrea	TheFrenchRazor	Dec 2017	#12
Just over an hour. Took longer than I thought it would.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#14
Trouble is once they are "cut off" then what?	hunter	Dec 2017	#17
You are absolutely right but I am not sure that is within Aristus ability to solve	stevenleser	Dec 2017	#27
You're right about that. For cortisone shots and other comprehensive musculoskeletal	Aristus	Dec 2017	#30
This is a nightmare and what is wrong with society.	NCTraveler	Dec 2017	#28
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I was contradicting myself.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#31
Oh boy, where do I start?	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#21
The first guy was an idiot.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#24
I think all of them except for Dr. Hume	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#32
If tumeric and ginger helped...	robbob	Dec 2017	#25
I might look into that.	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#33
It reached Canada	Sanity Claws	Dec 2017	#7
More people are going to die from opioids in Canada than car accidents.	applegrove	Dec 2017	#8
We are suffering from an Opioid epidemic because	TheDebbieDee	Dec 2017	#9
who cares? i'm sick of hearing about this non-crisis. now let me go back to my suffering, because i	TheFrenchRazor	Dec 2017	#10
It has - Russia, in particular	oberliner	Dec 2017	#11
Because big pharm made big bucks	tavernier	Dec 2017	#13
It sure has in Calgary and Vancouver Canada	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Dec 2017	#15
Russia seems to have a bigger drug problem in general than we do. Canada is going to be hit hard by	stevenleser	Dec 2017	#16
Because they have actual safety nets in the form of rational health care systems.	alarimer	Dec 2017	#18
In a conversation yesterday with a friend who is a nurse,	PoindexterOglethorpe	Dec 2017	#19
Xanax and Clonopin were the hardest things I've ever kicked	NightWatcher	Dec 2017	#26
I can see why it is.	roamer65	Dec 2017	#29
Most of those countries have opiates OTC	Nevernose	Dec 2017	#22

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