On 3rd Dr. & need advice please

State of PA - Under the Pinnacle Health System

I have sever degenerative arthritis, severe fibromyalgia, a.d.d. (or something like it from too many knocks on head) and osteo arthritis. My father has the same but with emphysema, diabetes, asbestosis(?), and now angina.

1st dr took me off both methadone and morphine, no weening, refused to call me back after 5-6 phone calls as to what I was to do for pain. At 2nd dr's. office I found out I could've had severe convulsions, but I did managed to find a wee bit of morphine that I took lesss and less of and had weened myself off. Can he be found negligent for his lack of care?

Dr. 2 - they could not control my fathers pain. We went in as his pain was so severe. I had only let him take oxycontin for 4 days as from prior experience, 5-6 days shuts him down and he wound up in the emergency room for 8-10 hours. The Dr's nurse-practioner gives me a prescription for the oxycontin. We had words as I was highly irritated she wasn't listening to what the oxycontin did to him. She talks to the Dr. and comes back with the same prescription and another one he had previously tried and didn't work. She said if he takes the two together it might work. We refused the medicine as we knew the one alone would out him back in the hospitol. She leaned over to whisper in my ear that if these 2 prescriptions didn't work his pain wasn't physical. I threw the precriptions across the room, took my father's hand and said we need to go find a real Dr. My question is, can anything be done about the way they handled his pain situation?

Dr. 3 we are now at, suspected my father might have angina as he was having chest pains. The problem is I had to call back 2 days later and ask if he had to have a heart attack 1st and then they would setup his appt. with a heart specialist. I guess they didn't feel this was a stat priority. We went to the heart dr. and now they are trying to move as fast as possible to see how much blockage he has since he already had left-side carotid artery surgery for blockage. The dr. was even told he was having pains in his left leg and his arm felt weak. The Dr. told me during my appt. that I'm on too many meds for my nerves and the pain medicines he's tried don't work. He said he wants to move right on this but never put stat on the order, 6 days later they call me from the Dr's. office stating they had just now tried to make an appt. but that the Dr. would need to fill out a form, the same as when they setup the appt. for my fathers severe pain. The Dr., left and went on vacation, so I had to wait. I've had problems with his office staff as well, he corrected a nurse for her attitude and for not knowing her job. This Dr. is also working with his father in this office and is the army Dr. co-ordinating where, when, how to place other Drs. during this new war. Whenever his father calls him or the army, he begins rushing us through our appts. Missing information, forgetting what he was to subscribe or have a nurse do before we leave.

The problem and question, he too knows , as well as the other Dr.s that stress affects my conditions horribly. What can I do about this poor treatment we are receiving? What happened to taking care of our health? Rhetorical question there. We're so frustrated. I don't know which way to turn or who to make aware that these Dr's. are making bad/painful decisions and aren't caring for us in a decent or respectable manner. Is there something we can do to report them, sue them, what?

Do I keep on looking for new Dr's.?

Thank you for hearing me out.
Marguerita

Edited for spelling and additional text.

I deeply sympathise with your painful conditions.
1. Did you try Pain clinic, they specialise in Pain management.

2. Regarding your father you did not finish stating if he had any blocked arteries in his heart.

3. Due to the regulations from the Board of Pharmacy, it is very difficult to treat any patients with pain medications chronically without filling out forms and documentations in several places and by several people. Those physicians who treat Pain are being audited by the Board of Pharmacy more frequently, so much so it is a disincetive to treat patients with chronic pain such as your condition. The reason being many of your fellow patients at one time or the other have falsified claims and sold Oxycontin on the street, Oxycontin is one of the prescription drugs sold for a huge profit by the patients illegally.

4. Pain is subjective, you have to prove beyond any doubt that you really have chronic pain. there are no tests to measure pain.

My advice is consult a pain specialist, contact your local hospital .
or sue and If I was that physician I would counter sue you for harrassement and false claim. Good luck.

If you re-read what I wrote you'd see all but one answer to your questions. The only thing I did forget to put in was that they are sending me to a pain management clinic that the Dr. wanted to move on right away, but again, he did not put stat on the order.

Should you re-read what I wrote, then look at your answer you may see what I see, an answer without an answer.

The 2nd Dr. was re-subscribing more oxycontin, we did not want it as it did not work. So your statement on oxycontin makes no sense to what I stated. The information you gave for whatever reason is pretty much common knowledge.

As for measurement of pain, I've been through numerous testing by each dr. and specialists seen that the degenerative arthritis alone seen through x-ray's, bone scans and mri's is proof positive of the kind of pain I am in. These Drs. have even, without me having a chance to respond or at times even see them reaching over or coming up behind me to push on a point of pain found out there is severe pain. I know because I asked each time why they did that. It was to test me for pain.

As far as a counter suit for harrassment and false claim... where did that come from?

I believe I asked:
"We're so frustrated. I don't know which way to turn or who to make aware that these Dr's. are making bad/painful decisions and aren't caring for us in a decent or respectable manner. Is there something we can do to report them, sue them, what?
"

I'll try to find out where to report them.

I would say thanks, but I don't think you answered anything for me.

Have a nice day though.

Marguerita