1 /5 Chris Hicks: Posting on behalf of my partner who was seen by this person, as treatment would be far too much to explain what happened. First of all my other half just recovered from months of chemotherapy and radiation. He also has a crushed disc in his spine and early this morning his sciatica was killing him to the point he could barely walk and could not even remain seated due to the pain.
During the cancer treatment he never took any pain medication, it was prescribed, but never taken. Still has the bottle. The only medication taken is clonazepam (3x/day) but is only taken when needed and no more than once a day. Doctor can check the bottle to verify.
This all matters because instead of actually trying to help, all he did was accuse him of abusing recreational drugs. Any test would have revealed that there are no drugs in his system. Although I realize ER doctors deal with drug addicts often, to treat someone who was there for such severe pain, someone who has gone through both chemotherapy and radiation - someone with a clearly verifiable medical history available on the exact same medical campus with such disregard, indifference, and to make baseless accusations of “recreational drug abuse.” at a time when a patient is truly in need is disgraceful.
Thank goodness there are actual Doctors close by who were able to help. Oddly enough, on the same medical campus as this so called ER doctor. This careless and misguided idiot made him stay there for close to 9 hours in agony for nothing. Only to have him sent home and to call another doctor who actually listened and paid attention to medical history.
Steer clear of this guy. I feel sorry for people with severe trauma complaining of pain - maybe a bandaid and lecture about recreational drugs before treating what’s likely obviously wrong.
