Amid quite some controversy I believe. It is with a sort thudding predictability then that today I have been provided with yet another horror story to warn of the evils of socialised medicine.
As you may or not remember most of 2009 was spent with various doctors under the Croydon health authority trying to convince my grandmother that she had dementia by wrongly proscribing drugs like codeine that mimic the symptoms of dementia. After I put a stop to all that nonsense my father went out a recruited a quack that would agree with the dementia diagnosis.
Today that doctor and I use the term loosely actually examined my grandmother for the first time. Even before she examined the patient she had prescribed a drug called Buprenorphine in a trans dermal patch. Like codeine Buprenorphine is an opioid analgesic however it is much, much stronger. In fact under the brand name Subutex it is used along with methadone as a heroin substitute.
Obviously I've fixed that problem already but I think it might be time for me to serve the doctor in question with written notice that not only are they prescribing a totally inappropriate medication they are doing so without the patients consent and in the process breaching patient confidentiality by discussing the case with someone who doesn't have a medical power of attorney.
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