Yes, this is one of the reasons my wife quit her job as an RN at a large Metro hospital. She was a young nurse when the initial tidal wave to prescribe Oxycontin, Percocet & Hydrocodone for every little patient pain complaint began.
She couldn't understand why the standard Tylenol pill or morphine drip was no longer sufficient. Her patients would be so "high" that she couldn't awake them or get them to stand to make it to the toilet. All the other nurses thought it was great as they could hang out at the nurses station and plan their next vacation or chat with their friends. The lazy nurses that just hung out all day would copy and paste her patient reports as they were their own so they didn't have to take time away from relaxing. Incidences of bed sores (patient inactivity) increased along with pain pill abuse as she would find patients hiding their pills in the bed so they could crush them and snort later.
The Nurse Manager and Dr's noticed how she was questioning the patient narcotic levels. She also didn't think it was a good idea to replace the hip of every 90 year old grandma because 70% of the time, they never recovered from the tramatic surgery. Soon she was getting her weekly assigned hours reduced and often got the most difficult / complex patient treatments.
The final straw was when the managers would follow her around to make sure she did everything perfect per procedure looking for any error so they could fire her. She knew this was BS as all the doctors had previously loved her attention to detail in the open heart ICU.
Doctor COULD use the full spectrum of cures available, down to herbal remedies ------ but they LIMIT themselves to ONLY the high dollar treatments. This is a crying shame.
Reminds me of when I had my first child in 2010. Immediately after C-section, had a nurse flit by and try to offer me pain pills every shift. I pushed back each time and the nurses kept saying things like, “Oh, but this will make you much more comfortable and help you sleep.” (In other words, make their shift easier by having a less needy patient.)
Fast forward a few years after, had to get a mastectomy. As soon as I was brought to my room, same thing - nurse came by pushing pain meds. When I pushed back and requested extra strength Tylenol, she bristled and talked down to me about why I really need to take pain meds. I refused them.
I got the impression that they get compensated for each pain pill they administer.
Glad that you avoided the highly addictive meds they wanted to push. My wife saw a lot of sad situations where regular successful people became addicted to the super strong meds which led to their ruin.
Yes, the drug reps shower the hospitals & doctors with a tremendous amount of free swag advertising every kind of pill you can imagine. My mom worked at a smaller hospital and she would bring home boxes of creative eye-catchy pens, notepads, calendars, mouse pads, key chains, lanyards etc as fast as the reps would fill them. They would bring in free lunches and have special training events at hotels where they would shower them with even more "gifts".
Ugh! Such corruption.. and so many patient lives have been irreversibly damaged by these pharma scams. Add to that the incentives that doctors received from big pharma to push the jabs on their patients. SMH.
I understand.
The "establishment" medical industry is fucked ---- because it is slave-chained to high dollar "cures".
Yes, this is one of the reasons my wife quit her job as an RN at a large Metro hospital. She was a young nurse when the initial tidal wave to prescribe Oxycontin, Percocet & Hydrocodone for every little patient pain complaint began.
She couldn't understand why the standard Tylenol pill or morphine drip was no longer sufficient. Her patients would be so "high" that she couldn't awake them or get them to stand to make it to the toilet. All the other nurses thought it was great as they could hang out at the nurses station and plan their next vacation or chat with their friends. The lazy nurses that just hung out all day would copy and paste her patient reports as they were their own so they didn't have to take time away from relaxing. Incidences of bed sores (patient inactivity) increased along with pain pill abuse as she would find patients hiding their pills in the bed so they could crush them and snort later.
The Nurse Manager and Dr's noticed how she was questioning the patient narcotic levels. She also didn't think it was a good idea to replace the hip of every 90 year old grandma because 70% of the time, they never recovered from the tramatic surgery. Soon she was getting her weekly assigned hours reduced and often got the most difficult / complex patient treatments.
The final straw was when the managers would follow her around to make sure she did everything perfect per procedure looking for any error so they could fire her. She knew this was BS as all the doctors had previously loved her attention to detail in the open heart ICU.
Doctor COULD use the full spectrum of cures available, down to herbal remedies ------ but they LIMIT themselves to ONLY the high dollar treatments. This is a crying shame.
Reminds me of when I had my first child in 2010. Immediately after C-section, had a nurse flit by and try to offer me pain pills every shift. I pushed back each time and the nurses kept saying things like, “Oh, but this will make you much more comfortable and help you sleep.” (In other words, make their shift easier by having a less needy patient.)
Fast forward a few years after, had to get a mastectomy. As soon as I was brought to my room, same thing - nurse came by pushing pain meds. When I pushed back and requested extra strength Tylenol, she bristled and talked down to me about why I really need to take pain meds. I refused them.
I got the impression that they get compensated for each pain pill they administer.
Glad that you avoided the highly addictive meds they wanted to push. My wife saw a lot of sad situations where regular successful people became addicted to the super strong meds which led to their ruin.
Yes, the drug reps shower the hospitals & doctors with a tremendous amount of free swag advertising every kind of pill you can imagine. My mom worked at a smaller hospital and she would bring home boxes of creative eye-catchy pens, notepads, calendars, mouse pads, key chains, lanyards etc as fast as the reps would fill them. They would bring in free lunches and have special training events at hotels where they would shower them with even more "gifts".
Ugh! Such corruption.. and so many patient lives have been irreversibly damaged by these pharma scams. Add to that the incentives that doctors received from big pharma to push the jabs on their patients. SMH.