well docs going down?

[copobo]

Medical marijuana: 3,200 patient applications in limbo, may be tossed due to technicalities - Denver News - The Latest Word

copobo Reviewed by copobo on 11-17-2011. well docs going down? Medical marijuana: 3,200 patient applications in limbo, may be tossed due to technicalities - Denver News - The Latest Word Rating: 5

[painretreat]

Read the article. Guess it seems a PA 'photocopied' a Dox signature and then signed. Mostly from one clinic!

Guess they are all out the cost of Dr. visit and fee to State of $90. And have to wait for "return" of applications! Really sucks!!

Hope you all get :stoned: anyway! pr

[cornbread]

I just got a well docs renewal 11/11/11. The signatures of doc and notary are all signed in blue ink.

[copobo]

it's not welldocs fault. the BOH is again changing the rules after the fact and fucking patients.

[mustangwomyn]

I'm still glad I go to a 1 doctor office & he encourages you to check his license status:thumbsup:

[HighPopalorum]

People need to stop patronizing these registry mills. I don't see how the doctors who operate them do so ethically.

[DenverRelief]

People need to stop patronizing these registry mills. I don't see how the doctors who operate them do so ethically.

What ethical issue is at stake?

Is there such thing as a noble lie in your mind?

[HighPopalorum]

No, but these businesses aren't about nobility. They're about seeing as many patients in as little time in the most cursory manner possible in order to maximize profit. Nobility doesn't enter into it. There's something wrong with these five-minute examinations; after all, they purportedly address serious medical conditions like cancer and AIDS. If I were a doctor, I couldn't square the wink-wink-nod-nod exams with my professional responsibility to do my best for every patient. I don't care if the patients or doctors lie to the state, but it's a scummy way to practice medicine, much like an attorney who does nothing but frivolous liability or whiplash cases.

[DenverRelief]

With the atrociously expensive state of health care, doctors should provide more than a signature when patients come seeking a medical marijuana recommendation, and should at the very least have an honest conversation about the effects of cannabis and the potential draw backs and results of its use, as any doctor prescribing any pharmaceutical medicine should.

This type of winking, as you put it, is common with opioid pain killers. Doctors don't just advertise that they accomodate those seeking pain killers, but word gets out, and it happens. The real winner there is the pharmaceutical company.

The 96% of Colorado Medical Marijuana Patients who have had MMJ recommended for 'chronic pain' are not fraudulent as many sources would have you believe.

Pain is common, be it due to surgery or trauma, and from my personal experiences as a budtender I can tell you that while many will say that pain isn't sufficient reason to use medical marijuana, I see it work wonders where pharmaceuticals didn't work and were accompanied by nausea and potentially more lethal side-effects.

How severe does pain have to be to justify using a narcotic but not medical marijuana?

[copobo]

they should just do away with the sham of the Dr Rec. As long as people are willing to pay, someone will be willing to sign. It's not easy or inexpensive to spend a half hour or 45 with a doc to talk about herb. I want a doc that believes I meight benefit from the herb and will sign me off. xrays and diagnosis don't lie and it doesn't take 45 minnutes with me, a smoker of 30 years, to do an mj rec.

That is what the amendment called for, right? Not a dr-patient relationship and a special dr appt done in a special way, not even required w/ EOL opiate pain management.