As I posted in an earlier thread I recently worked at an assisted living where the owner is a "doctor shopper" like the article about Freedom House director. Most of the employees think she's just crazy. She comes into the facility, pulls stuff out of the cabinets, scatters it all over the floor, generally creates chaos. The administrator told me to ignore her when she behaves that way. The admin has also worried out loud about the woman seeing 10 different doctors for mepergan, an injectable combo of pain meds. The woman has had 5 operations to remove abscess from her hips from infection from the injections.
She has surgery after surgery so she can get these meds. She has had every tooth in her head pulled one by one. She is now having the implants one by one. She's had every carpal tunnel surgery, back surgery, migraine treatment, tmj, nose job, neck lift, I can go on and on....She slurs her words, can barely hold her head up and is constantly calling people at the facility to pick up her meds for her. (These are the kind you have to sign for.)The administrator is a classic enabler.
The two of them insisted on having a key to my med cart. So. I quit.
earthmama says her "addiction" to food is legal. Guess what, until a couple of years ago, so was doctor shopping.
Now, the facility I'm employed by today wants to start a program of hiring women from an outreach home who have been in prison on drug related charges (non-violent offenders) to come to the facility and work as PCA's for our old people.
My question to you guys is this: If you had your mother in a nursing home and found that the PCAs were all convicted drug abusers and felons, would you be comfortable?
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