re: Opioid maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy

i swear this is just showing how ignorant people are

i'd imagine the vast majority of people posting "responsibility" memes have been prescribed medicine by doctors

...and they took it :omg:

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Just say "No"...How hard is that?

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wow, genius! Problem solved.

I go both ways on this. On one side you have a company who had ample evidence their product was being over-prescribed and abused. On the other you have personal responsibility.

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On the other you have personal responsibility.

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so your argument is people should ignore their doctors?

Very true. Ignorant folks try to group all addicts and behaviors together. How is the 70 year old grandmother with osteo to blame when she followed docs orders?

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On the other you have personal responsibility.

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What about when a prescription company lies to doctors and markets a highly addictive drug as non habit forming. They encouraged doctors to write scripts for it because the chances of it being misused or overdosing are "rare"

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They lobbied congress to enact laws that forced health care providers to consider pain management as part of their service and physician ratings (which are tied to reimbursement and compensation).

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The patient is always right.

frick Press Ganey.

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Based in South Bend, Ind., Press Ganey is the nation’s leading provider of patient satisfaction surveys, the Yelp equivalent for hospitals and doctors, and a central component of health care reform. Over the past decade the government has fully embraced the “patient is always right” model–these surveys focus on areas like waiting times, pain management and communication skills–betting that increased customer satisfaction will improve the quality of care and reduce costs. There’s some evidence they have. An ObamaCare initiative adds extra teeth, to the tune of $850 million, reducing Medicare reimbursement fees for hospitals with less-than-stellar scores.

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Hospitals and physicians had their livelihoods tied to these satisfaction scores, one element of which was pain management.

Doctors are a factor that is at fault, to a degree, but what the hell did they expect when they tied that to pay?

Oh, and it is bad for you.

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The current system might just kill you. Many doctors, in order to get high ratings (and a higher salary), overprescribe and overtest, just to “satisfy” patients, who probably aren’t qualified to judge their care. And there’s a financial cost, as flawed survey methods and the decisions they induce, produce billions more in waste. It’s a case of good intentions gone badly awry–and it’s only getting worse.

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Many doctors, in order to get high ratings (and a higher salary), overprescribe and overtest, just to “satisfy” patients

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Kind of like prescribing antibiotics for a virus just to make the patient feel better about themselves.

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Just say "No"...How hard is that?

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When your own doctor tells you to take it for debilitating pain while the company itself says it's not addictive?

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Have the doctors avoided all liability on this?

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By running for Congress...