I'd just like to say....That's RACIST!

EatHam: Heh - I always thought they were a bit too quick with the heavy stuff. "Hey, my tooth is kind of hurting, could I get a painkiller?" "Sure, have some percoset." "I actually was thinking more along the lines of a tylenol while I'm here, but whatever"

Thats unless you suffer blinding migraines. In that case you MUST be a worthless drug addict who doesn't deserve treatment, respect, or the slightest common courtesy.

Sharwnthla: Thats unless you suffer blinding migraines. In that case you MUST be a worthless drug addict who doesn't deserve treatment, respect, or the slightest common courtesy.

Or Cluster Headaches (pops)
Then they get it confused with migraines and assume you're just there to get out of work or get drugs.
I have trouble just getting oxygen (one of the best short term treatments).

Sharwnthla: Thats unless you suffer blinding migraines. In that case you MUST be a worthless drug addict who doesn't deserve treatment, respect, or the slightest common courtesy.

*Note: This is NOT an excuse, just a comment:

The amount of drug seeking that does go on in your average urban (and I'd guess sub-urban) emergency department is astronomical. It leaves a lot of the ER docs rather jaded. The good ones will remember they're jaded and offer appropriate treatment. The bad ones won't.

I've always heard Oxycontin referred to as "Hillbilly Heroin" as opposed to "Homeboy Heroin". I think that pretty much sums it up.

CheddarPants: I've always heard Oxycontin referred to as "Hillbilly Heroin" as opposed to "Homeboy Heroin". I think that pretty much sums it up.

homeboy heroin is, in fact, heroin

gimmedaloot: CheddarPants: I've always heard Oxycontin referred to as "Hillbilly Heroin" as opposed to "Homeboy Heroin". I think that pretty much sums it up.

homeboy heroin is, in fact, heroin

You are wrong, Sir. It is "White Lady," or "Smack." I grew up on 1970s TV detective shows and know this for a fact.

Whitey can't handle pain.

When I was in high school we talked about the issue of nurses adjusting the "value" of pain of different races. I asked my dad about it and he said that this is fairly accurate (he is a doctor). He said that a lot of the time when a patient of x race says they have pain on the level of 5, the nurse will actually say it's a 4 or a 6. It's a generalization for the most part but it happens.

If you've had migraines or cluster headaches, go to your doctor and get an Rx for meds from the pharmacy. See your doctor regularly, for all kinds of reasons, one of which is to keep your Rx current. Keep talking to your doctor about prevention, and be sure to keep your meds with you and do what the doctor says.

Don't keep clogging up the ER begging for pain meds.

I mean really, people.

Al Sharpton will give his response in 5. .4 . .3 . .2

Yes, it must be posted ...

Waiting for the Southpark "Naggers" pic.....

I summon Whoopty to this thread.

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EatHam: Heh - I always thought they were a bit too quick with the heavy stuff. "Hey, my tooth is kind of hurting, could I get a painkiller?" "Sure, have some percoset." "I actually was thinking more along the lines of a tylenol while I'm here, but whatever"

The misconception here is that tylenol is somehow a nice safe little drug, while percoset is an evil, dangerous one. APAP (the active ingredient in tylenol) poisoning can happen as quickly as taking one extra dose a day, and the danger in a lot of painkiller addiction isn't the narcotic part of the drug but the APAP part ripping apart your liver.

If you just want tylenol what the hell are you in the emergency room for? Common sense would dictate that if you were in enough pain to go to the hospital, an OTC isn't going to help.

Drug Seekers and do-gooders who bristle at the word 'narcotic' have put such a stigma on a legitimate form of pain relief that it makes those of us who properly use them feel like drug addicts just for filling a damn prescription.

As there are more white people in the U. S. than black people, this is supposed to be supprising?

If people would use the Emergency room for EMERGENCIES instead of using it as a clinic for a runny nose, I'd have a little sympathy.
I said a little.



/worked ER graveyard shift for many years.

bitteroldman: Sharwnthla: Thats unless you suffer blinding migraines. In that case you MUST be a worthless drug addict who doesn't deserve treatment, respect, or the slightest common courtesy.

Or Cluster Headaches (pops)
Then they get it confused with migraines and assume you're just there to get out of work or get drugs.
I have trouble just getting oxygen (one of the best short term treatments).

I have those too. It's pretty rare for doctors to get patients that actually have this, because it's rare itself, so they are normally clueless. I was lucky to get a doctor that did research for me and gave me Prednisone steroids which stops my clusters.

I was sitting in an ER once and some white guy comes in with his mommy and looking to get some heavy duty headache medication/shot.
An obvious junky. But mommy did not notice that...

/And thats why nurses can't just shoot people up without the doctor checking the person out.

The sad reality is that black people are more likely to live in inner city areas. These inner city hospitals get a lot more drug seekers coming in complaining of pain and looking for a fix. As a result, doctors and nurses in these hospitals are probably more likely to try non-narcotic pain relief first rather than feed a habit.

I haven't been to an ER for 20 years, but I believe they charged me $20 for two aspirin back then. If I hadn't had insurance, I would have raised holy hell. Maybe you can see where I'm going here.

Thanks for the tip, subby!

The differences between white and black people are adequately summed up here.

Hint to drug seekers: We know you're not having 10/10 abdominal pain when your pulse is 70 and your BP is 120/60 and you're not on beta-blockers.

Also: Don't bother with the emergency room. Just steal narcs from your family. Apparently, my relatives do pretty well that way.

/bitter
//can't keep narcs in the house
///that makes recovering from surgery very challenging

Is there a study that compares clean gainfully employed looking whites to clean and gainfully employed looking blacks?

or a separate study that compares trailer park "Cletus" whites to Ghetto trash n-bomb blacks?

I'll bet the doc is less likely to give Cletus from the trailer park meds than some clean cut well to do looking fellow like Rush Limbaugh....

I'll also bet the doc is less likely to give meds do someone like Upgrayedd from Idiocracy than to some clean cut looking fellow like say Barack Obama.


But saying anything besides white doctors must be racist makes me a racist, right?

Well, race isn't the only factor in these decisions. Other things about the way a person looks (grooming, cleanliness, style of dress) how the person behaves, and their medical history all play in. Doctors are aware that this happens, and do the best they can. Rich people can buy scripts from a regular doc. Poor people go to the ER. More black people are poor, etc and so forth. Lies, damn lies, statistics and all that.

mmmm narcotic painkillers

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That work for ya?

Oldiron_79: But saying anything besides white doctors must be racist makes me a racist, right?

Using logic are ya'? Racist capitalist pig!

Where did they find the "whites". Our emergency room is like 90% hispanic 100% of the time. The "whites" who have health insurance go to the clinic. If you don't have insurance you go to ER, If your hurt at work you go to the occupational clinic. Unless your dying, then your sent to the trauma room in the ER and they only give you the good stuff once your stable. In short ER's are being used for everything except emergencies anymore. I won't even get into the epidemic of "I lost/got my meds stolen". What's amazing is that the common antibotics pills are never stolen, It's always the good stuff.

Drug seeking behavior is easy to spot, does not matter what color you are. I see it a lot more in whites than anyone else.

/don't tell me you are allergic to Ibuprofen
//don't ask for drug by name
///don't ask for drug by name and dose
////don't tell me you are allergic to Vicodin and that you can ONLY take Oxycontin
//don't even mention the word Dilaudid
//don't waste my farkin time

Just took 3 vicodin so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/white
//It's for my wisdom teeth
///fark dry sockets

LtDarkstar: Waiting for the Southpark "Naggers" pic.....

How about my internet Lite Brite entry? I had the South Park ep in mind at the time.