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From time to time this Webmaster will exercise her right to Free Speech, and post editorials not only from herself, but from those of the readers of this website as well. The hypocrisy that occurs on a consistent basis across this country should be made known. I, as Webmaster, am NOT afraid to publish these voices here. Every person in this country has a voice, no matter how tiny it is, it has the right to be heard. Perhaps in being heard, others will be made more aware, and the suffering and condemnation will stop.
Your Webmaster, C. A. Underwood
September 15, 1999- A visit to still another "doctor", at still another "pain clinic", with my husband. He has suffered chronic back pain for years. He's been through the testing, hearing that his back is "inoperable". He's been poked, prodded, stuck, left medication less, and had his dignity stolen on numerous occasions. Today was just like the rest. We left the house in high hopes that perhaps "this doctor" would be different. That he would realize, that at age 53, my husband had been through enough. He had been doing very well on Percocet for quite some time, only having difficulty in the State of Tennessee finding a physician who was compassionate, and knowledgeable. This doctor wanted him basically to go back to Square One, and go through all of the previous testing again. Go through the painful injections, the epidurals, the muscle relaxers, the anti depressants. Why don't they listen? Why do they give him the droning state of the art, "drug lectures"? We left the pain clinic not only angry, but feeling degraded. How dare this physician make us feel like malingerers? Did we appear to be the sort of people who resell narcotics? Did we appear to be the sort of people who enjoyed staying at home on a Saturday night and "numbing up" with narcotics? Ohhh, since when did physicians and the DEA and the State become us? Since when did THEY have to experience the pain and the frustration? Perhaps they should. Perhaps if the receptionist that was so rude to me today, had the pain that my husband has, she wouldn't have lied to me, telling me it is illegal to give the records back to the patient. What is to gain from that? Perhaps that Canadian doctor who is so self-righteous in his Pollyanna practices would realize that my husband is not an addict or second class citizen, if he himself had to suffer the pain. Perhaps that same doctor wouldn't have sent my husband a Certified Letter, telling him that he was not going to accept my husband as a patient any longer due to "difference in opinion." I could go on and on, only to reach the same state of mind. It's an angering situation, with seemingly no compassion or understanding from the medical community, and it truly needs to change!
(By the way, this doctor is located in Tullahoma, Tennessee. I will not openly reveal his name due to legal ramifications. Isn't it ironic how the laws protect the criminals???)