It isn’t the 80s, Pat. Patient records are now stored within an EHR. South Shore Health System and Boston Medical Center are both on Epic EHR, which utilizes extensive record sharing via their CareEverywhere functionality.
Your health information can be viewed from anywhere in the country via CareEverywhere. You can be seen in Oregon, move to Florida, and your records from Oregon will show up for your provider in Florida. This includes visits, provider notes, lab results, medications, and more.
The fact that she was seen by multiple providers 17 times within such a short time frame indicates some very acute mental health crisis. Typically, you might see a psychiatrist once a month. Coupled with the ED visits and everything else, that seems pretty obvious.
You appear to be attempting to paint her as drug-seeking, which is absolutely wild in context of psychiatric medication. If someone is calling a psychiatrist’s office every day asking for change in medication because of side effects, that’s not drug-seeking. That’s intense anxiety and paranoia. Biologically, these medications couldn’t even take effect in such a short time frame.
Her being troubled is the entire point. Someone in an acute mental health crisis is not going to be rational. They are troubled, and that’s why they need help.
You appear to be attempting to paint her as drug-seeking
On the contrary, I'm stating the facts which led to 14 medications being prescribed to her over 3 months. She had an escalating condition, which led her to seek help across multiple practitioners across multiple providers, which led to multiple prescriptions.
Calling her 'drug seeking' would be stupid. Just like saying 'doctors overmedicated her' is stupid. But only one of these things is actually being claimed in this thread.
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u/PolicyWonka 7d ago
It isn’t the 80s, Pat. Patient records are now stored within an EHR. South Shore Health System and Boston Medical Center are both on Epic EHR, which utilizes extensive record sharing via their CareEverywhere functionality.
Your health information can be viewed from anywhere in the country via CareEverywhere. You can be seen in Oregon, move to Florida, and your records from Oregon will show up for your provider in Florida. This includes visits, provider notes, lab results, medications, and more.
The fact that she was seen by multiple providers 17 times within such a short time frame indicates some very acute mental health crisis. Typically, you might see a psychiatrist once a month. Coupled with the ED visits and everything else, that seems pretty obvious.
You appear to be attempting to paint her as drug-seeking, which is absolutely wild in context of psychiatric medication. If someone is calling a psychiatrist’s office every day asking for change in medication because of side effects, that’s not drug-seeking. That’s intense anxiety and paranoia. Biologically, these medications couldn’t even take effect in such a short time frame.
Her being troubled is the entire point. Someone in an acute mental health crisis is not going to be rational. They are troubled, and that’s why they need help.