After a few questions, though, she admitted that a friend had sold her some OxyContin, and that she’d stolen pills from another friend.
The interaction was all staged, with the patient played by an actor and the doctor played by a medical student last month. The exercise was part of a daylong boot camp at the University of Massachusetts Medical School designed to help physicians in training identify and fight opioid abuse.
“There’s a lot at stake here. We have a public health epidemic, and it’s not getting better, and the health care profession is part of the problem,” said Michele Pugnaire, the medical school’s senior associate dean for educational affairs.
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3 comments:
Better training in actual pain management is necessary. Far too many physicians write prescriptions but go little further to address pain control and minimization.
If I am in a lot of pain I go to the guy over by Giant, he has good stuff.
Hilarious.
Are the pharmaceutical companies going to stop incentivizing the doctors to over-prescribe narcotics?
I doubt it.
Is the CIA going to stop importing heroin into this country?
I doubt it.
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