tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post5159994678301563470..comments2023-10-25T09:49:43.089+01:00Comments on BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose: "What, with these feet?!"prisonerbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14923205052778958118noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-49995377830299343402011-01-27T20:06:08.083+00:002011-01-27T20:06:08.083+00:00' The historical method of weeding out the lat...<i>' The historical method of weeding out the later is to treat every con as if he was lying through his teeth, and see who gives up and who ends up at deaths door'.</i><br /><br />Very much like the process involved in receiving disability benefits on the outside. The default tactic is humiliation.Gainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08495953058626656188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-40097633153267148892011-01-25T20:40:43.161+00:002011-01-25T20:40:43.161+00:00It's easily solved, the majority of NHS record...It's easily solved, the majority of NHS records are available via computer database. It would take any Doctor/Nurse less than a few minutes to determine whether the patient has pre-existing conditions that may require a bit more than Paracetamol. I am facing a lengthy prison sentence later this year and I regularly take Co-Dydramol for existing problems so this is a concern to me.Don McLeodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-72924509088540645532011-01-25T11:01:03.195+00:002011-01-25T11:01:03.195+00:00Further to prior pedanticness, Paracetamol when ta...Further to prior pedanticness, Paracetamol when taken regularly is extremely effective. In the hospital people complaining of pain get dosed up on 1g four times a day first, to be augmented or replaced with the harder stuff later.<br /><br />It seems that the MO is in a tough place, esp. with prescribing anything which might have non-medicinal use. How to pick out those who really are ill, and those simply after the benefits (not a problem absent in primary care in general). <br /><br />I don't see any better solution than in cases where the 'treatment' is valuable whether you're ill or not: simply having a higher suspicion that the patient is 'faking it' if dealing with a prison population. The consequence is inevitably under-treatment. Is there a better way?Thrasymachushttp://thepolemicalmedic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-52854058966965013462011-01-24T18:50:51.516+00:002011-01-24T18:50:51.516+00:00Three very pedantic points which I mention only in...Three very pedantic points which I mention only in case you're interested.<br /><br />1, it's five years of medical school in the UK, and the vast majority of doctors in the UK are not MDs.<br /><br />2, we don't like prescribing anything stronger than paracetamol to *anyone* if we can possibly avoid it. I'd imagine most people at forty five have never had strong painkillers, because mostly there is no need for them. I don't know your details obviously so I don't know how reasonable your medication requests have been, but I'm pretty sure it's not unusual for 45 year old men not to be given strong stuff.<br /><br />3, there's a certain type of nurse that does that thing about prescriptions whether they're in the prison infirmary or an NHS ward or a private hospital. Even if the person prescribing is the world expert on whatever it is the patient has, even if the nurse can't even pronounce whatever condition it is, a certain kind of nurse will always say "oh, I don't think the doctor meant to prescribe these, I'd better check with the charge nurse..." as if the doctor just wrote down the first thing that came into their head.<br /><br />I don't doubt you guys get it worse than your average patient, I just thought I'd add my twopence.<br /><br />Incidentally, paracetamol is good for *everything*.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-21702291735564977472011-01-24T18:22:52.584+00:002011-01-24T18:22:52.584+00:00I hated the medical staff when I was doing bird. T...I hated the medical staff when I was doing bird. The so called Doctor asked about my drinking habits and I told him I would drink perhaps four cans of lager a night. He diagnosed me as an Alcoholic.<br /><br />I got that little matter sorted on release.<br /><br />Also from I understand prisons didn't used to release medical notes to an ex prisoner's doctor resulting in several suicides that may not have happened had their own doctors had access to these vital pieces of information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-56235848198796656642011-01-24T17:38:27.414+00:002011-01-24T17:38:27.414+00:00I'm 56 and I've had prescription painkille...I'm 56 and I've had prescription painkillers twice, for back trouble. People do differ a lot.Cirrocumulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11357630236254664430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-3037275876816497542011-01-24T17:27:31.389+00:002011-01-24T17:27:31.389+00:00A minor pedantic point (and not central to the thr...A minor pedantic point (and not central to the thrust of your article) but I believe comparatively few of the medical practitioners who we address as "Doctor" are actually MDs.allegoricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05125452847647782871noreply@blogger.com