I already regret not going through with the ALIF procedure my great ortho surgeon wanted to perform.
A week before the schedule, with major concerns about pain Rx meds post-op, and a pharmacist again interfering with my prescriber's Rx, I didn't dare move ahead.
Why can't these 3rd party pretend doctors stay where they belong--I am speaking of pharmacists with no patient knowledge, with no patient best interests anywhere in their jaded brains.
Pharmacists--you are fungible--you are not providers. Follow orders. The academicians have issued a professional undergraduate degree--a 6-year program--and told you that you have a doctorate. It is not accurate.
Now the physical therapist academics have followed suit and they call their graduates doctors, saying the physical therapist has a doctorate.
Good Lord! Face the facts of academic history. A bachelors degree is 4 years. Add 2 more years for a masters degree. Add 3 more years of study in which you present "new knowledge" in a subject, write a thesis--basically author a book, and defend & support your "new knowledge or patent addition to the existing body of knowledge before a board of your peers.
This fallacy must stop. Blocking the medication prescribed for a patient is NOT your role. Assisting insurance companies in blocking therapy should not be your role. Stay in your lane.
Not only did a retail pharmacist block post-op pain therapy with that being the sole cause of cancellation of a surgery to get 2 new metal lumbar discs. But this was the final step for me.
I was concurrently diagnosed with a new cancer which appears to require a head & neck surgeon.
Also, the expectation of a 12-week recovery along with medication fears shut me down.
Don't get old....
** Three months update: The nerve is agonizing & infuriating. Why didn't I get that surgery done? I can be such a loser sometimes.
