Mean Doctors....
"You didn't tell me this yesterday!"
This happened while I was in the hospital with Chronic Pancreatitis for 20 days. My GI doctors had the pain service doctors handling the pain while I was in the hospital. They came around to see me and adjust my pain mediction to the pain I was having. One day a different pain clinic doctor came in to see me, and he asked me what pain medications I took at home. I told him that I took Percocet 10/325, 2 pills every 6 hours, and MSIR 30mg every 4 hours as needed for break through pain. And that I took both of them regularly to keep the pain away, I had to do it like that. My mom was even sitting right there when I told him this. He was asking me what I took at home because they were going to get me off the IV pain medication, and back to taking regular pain pills like I took at home.
The next day the same pain clinic doctor shows up in my room, telling me that he ordered my MSIR, and that I had to ask for it. I looked at him and asked about my percocet. He said back to me "What percocet?". I was kind of suprised...because I know I told him the day before about me taking percocet. I told him again what I took at home, and he said there was no reason to be on 2 different pain medications like I was on, and that I only needed the MSIR. There was no way he was going to order my percocet! What was I to do. This didn't seem fair. I know I told him the day before about me being on percocet and MSIR. He just said to me "You Didn't tell me this yesterday!" I was like.....Yes I did! You can call the pain clinic I go to every week and ask them what they give me every week I see them. There was no way in the world I woul forget to tell someone I took percocet. Geeze. Then, he left my room...not ordering me to get percocet. There was nothing I could do. Then, I remembered that my GI doctors said that when I felt good enough to go home, just to let them know and they would write for me to be discharged. So I called my nurse into my room, and told her I wanted to go home. She paged the GI doctor on call and told them, and boom, I got to go home THAT DAY! :)
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