Melanie,

I basically handle things similarly to you and use the same trust discussions. Just when you think you have made some headway then "Bam" you are defeated by a colleague. I also am liberal with pain meds for those that need them and, like you, prescribe a lot of plain codeine or hydrocodone for people with questionable liver or renal functions.


Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "