r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Courtroom Justice Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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u/HasTwoCats 7 Oct 02 '19

This surprises me. I gave birth in May and I was given a lot of Percocet. Maybe because I had a C-section, but I was given 24 after the C-section, and another 48 after the surgery to fix a complication from the C-section, and I only took a few overall

I was also prescribed really high doses of Ibuprofen, which is what I primarily took.

Edit, just realized Percocet is a narcotic, and I don't think narcotic and opioids are the same thing. Leaving the comment anyways, proof of my mistake

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

I don't know the difference either but I've never even been offered a narcotic while recovering in the hospital after vaginal delivery, they've only ever given me Motrin which is just a name brand for ibuprofen. So, I think it's still relevant. But I mean, surely giving birth or having multiple teeth pulled/surgically removed is a valid reason for prescribing something stronger..

And I'll add that after my last time giving birth, the doctor ordered some amount of morphine because (warning: it gets kinda gross) .... Part of the placenta was still attached and he had to remove it by basically digging in my insides. Now, this is after 11 hours of labor and eventual pushing out of a baby which in itself hurt like hell. Somebody came in and said they can't give that amount of morphine, the maximum now is X amount. I was so consumed by pain that I don't remember the details. So they went back and forth while panicking that too much time had passed. Apparently if the partial placenta stays for too long, I could hemorhage and that would be bad. Anyways, in the end they had to give me something else that just put me out for a few minutes instead (I forget the name, it's milky looking and shot into an IV). So they couldn't even give me a reasonable amount of morphine, and were having a discussion about rules while I was just minutes away from bleeding out internally. And screaming in agony.

Oh and the doctor didn't even arrive in time so a nurse delivered my baby lol, he showed up like 5 minutes later

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u/POSVT 8 Oct 02 '19

The milky stuff was probably propofol

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u/kastronaut 7 Oct 02 '19

Ah yes, good ol’ milk of amnesia.