A cringey "pre-med" student wanders into /r/medicine to shame doctors for being judicious in prescribing opiates. Mild hilarity ensues as he tries to defend his position.

98  2017-07-29 by [deleted]

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You're not shit next to me. My genes are just light years superior to yours and I don't even need to look at you.

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Holy fuck they're ripping him apart better than /r/drama ever could. We've gotta step up our game.

Ain't nobody who can tear somebody apart like a pissed-off attending with some shitty kid with an ego

What about the military guys?

Some Drill Sgts could for sureeee. But they will attack your soul. These physicians and MDs are ripping apart his brain

making some high-school jock cry is easy, knocking some self-ordained genius off their fucking perch is where it's at

What about a military MD?

A Sargent tearing apart a boot is a whole different level. We don't dare compare civilian life to that.

It's the job of every DS to tear down their recruits and build them back up into soldiers. With the current regs in place drill sergeants have had to become ever more creative in how they do it. It's one hell of an experience.

Like dr cox

Medicine... an industry that is known for eating its young... when is a fetus it's just desserts.

"[Ping] haha ur dumb and gay and mad" -/r/drama

How dare you. We also spam bussy until they just get confused and leave.

HEy you stole my secret formula

/u/basicallyadoctor , can you weigh in here?

I imagine he's busy with the emoji movie.

We all are.

Haven't we seen similar posts from junkies in the past? The "you don't know what we go through" and the extreme defensiveness seems familiar.

Yes, it's classic junky repertoire. I'm surprised their tirade wasn't longer because junkies ramble like they're authors paid by word count.

He had to go shoot up again

See also - ents and vapers.

Despite your considerable insight, I'm just going to keep practicing medicine the way I do. With a license.

I hope there are some MDs in that sub with specialization in severe Burns.

Why's that asshole so mad

Pre-med as in I'm an undergrad student intending to apply to medical school.

You don't know anything about me. Yes, I did a lot of drugs in high school including opiates and heroin. I also quit on my own when I started college because I wanted to take it seriously. I never stole or scammed like a junkie as someone else accuses me of below. It's been almost two years since I've touched heroin.

This guy.

that faggot can't even be a junkie right

In my first year of university I knew about 10 people who were "pre-med". Guess how many became doctors. Spoiler - not a single one.

All the bright eyed first years with their big plans until reality hits them like a sledgehammer. You aren't as special as mommy and daddy told you you are.

I have a friend about to start med school. He's literally the smartest guy I've ever met and he plays a lot for videogames and watches a ridiculous amount of anime. He is the ubermensch.

I've just started medical school and still struggle to spell necessary without looking it up. There's a spectrum of intelligence within the field tbh

Yeah. His field of knowledge is narrow. I know plenty of people that know more about history or politics or whatever. It's just that he can read through 90 pages of notes in a night an remember it all.

I'm sure you're pretty darn smart though. And good luck with med school.

you are too kind <3

Organic chemistry was fun to see how many extremely committed pre-meds suddenly became psychology majors.

My favorite part of that thread was that I learned that despite being in school for manufacturing I am also pre med. who knows I could still go to medical school.

/u/liberaljesus wont even pass his first physio class.

The dude has a point but it's lost in his cringe.

Doctors do over prescribe opiates but at the same time people abuse that over prescription.

For example, my mom had gall bladder surgery in January. Quick, out patient surgery. Her surgeon sent her home with 30 opiate based pain pills. She took two, dropped the rest in a pill recycling box at the police station.

Someone else with that many pills could absolutely sell them or take them, becoming addicted.

Point being, doctors need to think about use before prescribing large amounts of pills. After out patient gall bladder surgery the only scenario where someone would need 30 pills is one where they would also likely need to return to the hospital because of complications.

dropped the rest in a pill recycling box at the police station.

Now that, that is fucking abuse.

Throwing out perfectly good pills does seem barbaric, but maybe she was concerned that other people in their family would try to find and steal them otherwise? In fact, maybe she didn't throw them out and it's just the story she told /u/botchlings, knowing his tendencies?

Perhaps. Throwing out perfectly good medicine that is not easy to acquire is foolishness. That shit should go in your med kit, not the toilet.

Why? If you're not going to use or need it?

That shit should go in your med kit, not the toilet.

You shouldn't throw medication of any sort in the toilet. It can leech into groundwater that way.

How the fuck you know you not gonna need it? You from the future, motherfucker? You Donald J. Trump?

How the fuck you know you not gonna need it?

Any scenario where you'd need strong pain medication would likely also require a trip to the doctor. It's not that you won't 100% need it in the future but there aren't many instances where you'd be in a significant amount of pain and not need to see a doctor.

Have you never been outdoors? In an emergency? Hunting? Backpacking? The doctor ain't always about, mate.

And yet they sell Tylenol at the store and encourage people to take it when in pain for things that they don't go to the hospital for.

Yes, I understand that acetamophin is not the same thing as fentanyl but it would be nice to take a Vicodin after stubbing my toe.

And yet they sell Tylenol at the store and encourage people to take it when in pain for things that they don't go to the hospital for.

Are you seriously trying to compare tylenol to opiate based pain medication, or any other prescription pain medication?

but it would be nice to take a Vicodin after stubbing my toe.

Sarcasm? If not, that's the sort of entitlement that has helped to create the opioid problem we currently have in this country.

These sound like the comments of someone whose brother is (or was) a junkie so now his entire family has this weird neurosis involving opiates because blaming the pills is easier than blaming the person

Or you know, whatever

hese sound like the comments of someone whose brother is (or was) a junkie

No addiction problems in my family whatsoever, but we do live in an area that has been ravaged by opioid abuse.

Lol, no.

There's no reason to keep medication that you aren't going to use or need and you don't want to just flush the stuff down the toilet.

I wonder why you'd find disposing of pills "barbaric?"

Why do you think you're not going to need it? What's the harm to have it lying around just in case? (well, unless you're a Trump supporter and therefore have junkies in your family etc etc)

Why do you think you're not going to need it?

I think any injury that would require pain medication stronger than aspirin would also require a visit to the doctor.

But what if ACA gets repelled and you don't have insurance any more?

The ACA is terrible. It's done nothing but make my insurance premiums increase.

Beyond that, I had private insurance before the ACA and I will have it long after the ACA is gone (or implodes)

The ACA is terrible. It's done nothing but make my insurance premiums increase.

UUUU

For you

I know people - families that the ACA was supposed to "help" who had no trouble affording insurance prior to the ACA. Under the ACA they can't afford insurance.

And before you say "single payer" is the solution, I know plenty of people who live in co tries with a single payer system that hate it.

wew

I wonder why you'd find disposing of pills "barbaric?"

Because you can use them to get high!

Mad junkie, that grumpy monkey.

I'm mad that the goddamn Mexicans are too lazy to properly process this West Coast black tar into proper East Coast #3 powder.

That's actually the opposite If his point I think. He's mad that the general consensus is that opiates need to be prescribed less.

If some retard wants to die in his sleep after taking half a bottle of percocet, who the fuck cares? I say don't let inbred hicks ruin it for everyone else.

I say don't let inbred hicks ruin it for everyone else.

Except it's not just "inbred hicks" that are feeling the effects of opioid addiction.

I've never ever seen an addict that wasn't a complete dipshit.

I did a lot of drugs in high school including opiates and heroin. I also quit on my own

Of course /u/liberaljesus is a junkie. Also LOL at this loser ""quitting""" heroin.

Hey man, I quit heroin all the time. I quit last Monday, for instance.

To be fair medical students are fucking awful and should be shot on sight once they even try to suggest a diagnosis or the best course of action.

Also the way some American doctors use opioids is pants on retarded.

Source: I was a medical student and I hated myself.

Pre med= biology major, right?

/u/liberaljesus have you considered suicide as treatment for chronic pain?

Not only would it end your suffering, it would end the suffering of those around you

that mistake will cost lives in the future if you become a doctor.

The citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis are hereby on notice.

Pre-med?

"I don't speak Mandarin yet, but someday I'm gonna major in it so y'all Chinamen better STFU when I lecture you about how you don't know shit about your native language."

This fucking doctor needs to be arrested with his asinine interpretation of the NEJM article. Why the fuck is the U.S. the only place with the preponderance of opioid prescription and as many people that need pain management compared to any other developed nation in the world. Folks like this idiot try to minimize the problem of opioids, for crying out loud half of all drugs prescribed in my state were opioids. If people really need opioids in that amount, then we have big fucking problem.

I hope that idiot OP never becomes a doctor.

I had appendicitis with a pain level of 5/10 and a doctor prescribed me 2 months of oxy after talking to me for five minutes. I just wanted my appendix removed and some advil.