>----- Original Message -----
From: "Karla" <ifirgit@new.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: adhesion pain in the ER: a nurse's opinion
> Yep....she can write all right...she can be a "ghost" writer and can be
> reincarnated as Jeanne Dixon.
>
> Karla
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Millie" <milliem@citlink.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: adhesion pain in the ER: a nurse's opinion
>
> > I can tell you, RIGHT NOW, that you are not very professional, at all.
> > Matter of fact, how DID you ever become a nurse? I think you should
> choose
> > another profession... possibly writing, since you are "Anonymous."
> > You are entitled to your own opinion, of course.
> > I have dealt with
> > "professionals" like yourself, who have no sympathy for people who have
> > pain, whether it be from adhesions, or something else. "Anon., how
would
> > you like to be in extreme pain, and BEG for xrays and ANY tests, only to
> > have a "doctor" or a "nurse" tell you that you are one of 2 things...
> > either an anorexic, or you're crazy.
> > I think we know who is crazy, and believe me, it isn't that patient in
> pain.
> > I have NEVER refused any tests, or treatment. In your case maybe
patients
> > have refused, with that attitude of yours!!!! O.K., "Anon., " how many
> > surgeries have YOU had? If you had surgery, was it major surgery?
> > And furthermore, who do you think YOU are - judging who is not sick
enough
> > to be in your emergency room???
> > Are you God, to be judging people's lives? Or are you trying to play
> Jeane
> > Dixon??
> > How would you like to have all of your organs be 'glued' together to
the
> > point that everytime you moved, the pain would stop you in your tracks?
> > Maybe some of you so-called 'professional' "Anonymouses " should either
> go
> > back to nursing school, med school, or for OUR sakes, please find
another
> > profession!!!!!!!!!!!
> > Millie
> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "anonymous" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> > <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 4:05 PM
> > Subject: adhesion pain in the ER: a nurse's opinion
> >
> > > I found this site by accident and have read so many stories of
> > > "mistreatment" by nurses and doctors in ERs when you come to us in
pain.
> > > I want you to think of it in our terms.
> > >
> > > You wander in day and night, most of you walking on your own, in no
> > > apparent acute distress.
> > > You register and wait, telling everyone in the busy waiting area that
> > > you MUST be seen immediately, "because you hurt so badly."
> > > You take up valuable space in busy trauma and emergency medicine
> > > departments complaining of terrible pain in your abdomen, and you tell
> > > us you must get pain meds for the pain.
> > >
> > > One a pain assessment scale of 1-10, virtually all of you cite between
> > > an 8 and a ten. But you aren't perspiring, crying, vomiting, bloated,
> > > or acting like you are acutely ill.
> > >
> > > Many of you refuse to have x-rays, scans and other diagnostic studies
> > > because you say "all those tests have been done a million times and
they
> > > are always negative" but you demand pain medication!!
> > > You tell us you have adhesions but adhesions are nothing more than
> > > layers of scarring that have no nerve endings. How can this cause
pain?
> > >
> > > I am told "I need 100 mg of Demerol, IM " by someone who refuses to
> > > allow us to examine them, and when we refuse to give you narcotics you
> > > become upset.
> > >
> > > What do you want from us? If every drug addict walked into my ER and
did
> > > what many of you do, they'd be booted out by Security but for some
> > > reason, you feel we are treating you unfairly??
> > >
> > > Maybe instead of asking for pain medication, you might benefit from
> > > talking to a therapist who can help you deal with your "pain"?
> > >
> > > If we do an MRI or flat plate and see something suspicious., of course
> > > you'll be treated aggressively, and receive sympathy and medication.
> > > Otherwise, please understand, we are not a narcotic dispensing
> > > department for everyone with indigestion or cramps.
> > >
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