This is an outrage

I had the Pro Spine C implanted in my cervical spine and after 18 months its ost all of its sagital movement and now I will need a revision surgery that is life threatning.

How dare the FDA know about these contributors and still go ahead and approve a disc that has showed it fails in a short period of time. .

Persons who live in pain deserve a chance at life.
Their only transgression is they are in pain, which we have the technology to help abate. But as usual the media is hell-bent on putting drug abuse directly on the shoulders of the Chronic Pain Patient.
Look at the all out war on Oxycontin, from local police to new DEA agents hired just to pursue the wrong end of the distribution matrix.
Step back from the CPP and let them search out a medication or medications that will give them a life back. The addict abuses illegal drugs, the dependant uses meds for pain abatement as directed by an MD.
BIG difference that so many of you simply miss in your attempt to appease those who make a hell of a lot more money than you do ! – - -Roberoo

I believe that a free pour happened on one of my patients. I did everything I could when this happened to make sure my patient was OK. I filed an incident report. My immediate supervisor that day tried to keep the pump away from me so I could not add the serial numbers of the pumps in use to the incident report. She claims she didn’t understand why I needed them although she has a background in medical/legal. Then risk management interrogated me with a person who specialized in the rollout of the pumps. They lied to me and told me the drug infusing was not on the drug library. It was on the drug library. I witnessed it on the drug library during am rounds and the night nurse confirmed the same. Another employee found out that the Alaris pump report itself showed that the drug infusing was on the drug library.

Fortunately, my patient was not injured by the event. Of course, the significant other was upset. The doctor explained. I reinforced that I did not know how this happened.

My hospital did their best to blame the incident on me. It contributed to me getting fired from my job. I have never had something this terrible happen to me while I have been a nurse. If I were a patient at a hospital and found out the hospital was using this potentially deadly infusion pump, I would arrange to leave the hospital and go to a good hospital that was using a different pump. This pump can ruin people’s lives or end a person’s life. I hope the public will demand that this is a mandatory recall rather than a voluntary one. Medicines are dangerous when the rate of infusion is not controlled. It’s not fair for the patient. It’s not fair to the nurses.

If someone were to state Mental illness does not exist, all one would have to do in order acquire a meager concept of Mental Illness would be to take a cursory look at THE GROUPs associated with inventing such mental illnesses (i.e. its sources). That is an extremely bold statement to make. “…inventing mental illnesses.”. I suppose this argument presents the paradox of the all too common question of “did the egg come before the chicken?”, or “did the Psychiatrist come before the mental illness?”.

Why would someone like me or millions of others even begin to imply such a blithe notion that Mental Illness is invented by a group of charlatans? After all, people do have rough days, drink excessively and sometimes feel nervous speaking in front of audiences. Adults can also, not even mentioning children, have a bit of difficult time sitting still, in hard wooden or plastic chairs, and concentrating for extended periods of time. After all, couldn’t the entire sum of human responses or emotional difficulties be categories as mental illness. (e.g. recently purported jet lag is a mental illness and can be addressed with medication). Since the mental health experts are only able to diagnose and adjudicate a patient’s mental stability based solely on subjective intuition, where unfortunately lacking a clear-cut blood or forensic test. Couldn’t any and all abnormality (besides of course physically in nature) be classified and/or categorized as a mental health problem (e.g. picking of nose, road rage, excessive surfing of the internet, etc.)?

Without a doubt, no one would argue that any eccentricity in human behavior found could be classified, codified and categorized as a mental health illness. Perhaps because (as reported) mental illness is way too complicated of a subject, is it too much to ask for accurate causes thus leading to such a diagnosis and medication? – meaning, hypothetically; who wouldn’t demand answers from their car mechanic explaining the cause and source of their engine problems, let alone ongoing visits (2-5 visits weekly) to get the same engine tuned or adjusted? Personally, I would want some answers.

What about all the millions of people who have supposedly been assisted by the myriad of FDA rated Class II anti-psychotics/depressants drugs currently on the market (compared by many experts and the FDA to have similar side effects and as addictive as heroin)? How could one deny that people actually feel and operate better on these high powered narcotics? After all, it doesn’t take a genius to see that Johnny is now able to sit still in those hard plastic/wooden chairs in class, and that Betty is certainly able to attended social gatherings without eating up her insides.

Do these drugs change the way we feel?

What’s wrong with the way we feel and who is saying it? Can the root (Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical, DSM, etc.) of all these dreaded mental disorders cure the actual cause(s) of what’s wrong with people in society, or are we going further down a road with more classifications, more people (children too) entwined in chemical straitjackets, addicted to medication (thus turning a profit) and a whole new brave world where everyone on the street has some “disorder” that can be cured with a magic little pill? In ten years from now, will the topics of conversation be “What disorder do you have and what are you taking for it?” Hasn’t a patterns been forming here where the Pharmaceutical companies have been engaging in putting the illicit drug lords out of business? Who wouldn’t want some of the cheddar?

Not only do we have synthetic mental disorders being created; we now have Eli Lilly generating more business in the form of unnatural creation of diabetes.
See: http://www.cchr.org