FDA’s “dentures” are too weak to be effective
The FDA lacks any real “teeth” to do their job.
I recently reviewed the records of a new applicant who has been seeing the Salem Clinic. After three different requests for records, we still NEVER received the following: NO prescription log of post-dated prescriptions given to the patient that are not documented in the chart notes, NO controlled substance agreement despite them saying one was done, and NO Material Risk Notice as advised by the Oregon Medical Board.
So many clinics do not take the matter of pain management seriously and just go through the motions of prescribing opiates in this era of an “opioid crisis.”
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The FDA lacks any real “teeth” to do their job.
If they want to claim religious beliefs, then they need to be willing to pay the consequences of such beliefs too.
Pulled out some records to check some things and refreshed myself with something I had been meaning to post earlier but got distracted.
I find it amazing that so many clinics, especially pain clinics are ignoring the requirements of having pain agreements and Material Risk Notices with their patients.
Here is a letter that I sent to the Office Manager of Oregon Cardiology, located at Peace Health Sacred Heart Medical Center, by fax on 12-10-19.
CHI Mercy is so great about spinning the details on anything that they can turn into a big billboard along the highway. Let’s see how they spin this one off too.