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"Any physician, patients past or present, family members of patients that wish to support Dr. Connie Basch and the exceptional quality of care she provides to this medically under-served community, please use the email below. We are organizing a group of citizens to show public support for Dr. Basch."
"She’s an asset to this community, providing numerous resources to many of us medically challenged patients. Dr. Basch works relentlessly to provide the highest quality of care to her patients. It would be heartbreaking to lose her and devastating to our already under-served isolated community."
The statement above is from Karen Bertenthal and you can email her at Karen.bertenthal@yahoo.com.
Letter of support:
Dr. Basch is an AWESOME Doctor who goes above and beyond for her patients. She has been a God Send to our family. If you are a current patient or a former patient she could use letters of support in her battle with the state. They are trying to revoke her medical license. They claim that she has over prescribed opioids to her patients. In our experience this is far from the truth. She has prescribed massage, physical therapy and acupuncture to our family as alternatives to opioids and other pain medications. Please take the time to write a letter of support today!
Mitchell Kane
I will be adding to this post a statement from Dr. Corrine Basch, if she choses to send me one.
Previous posts:
https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2019/05/25-page-document-filed-by-medical-board.html?m=1
https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2019/05/medical-board-of-california-may-revoke.html?m=1
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ReplyDeleteDr. Basch is the finest MD I've ever had and I've had plenty. She has compassion for people in a way other physicians should seek to emulate. She saved my life, taking over my care from a Nurse Practitioner whose lack of supervision from a doctor at MRCH nearly killed me. She has knowledge far beyond most primary care physicians and yet she always insists I also see the appropriate specialists. She continues to prescribe the oxycodone my neurosurgeon prescribed me for back surgery because it is the only painkiller I can use due to liver disease. In order to be a pain patient, I am required to check in regularly. I was asked by Connie to take her 12 week class on alternative pain relief methods such as tapping, meditation, exercise and more. We tried other step down pain relief prescriptions, buprenorphine and low dose naltrexone to no avail. So I continue to take the 15mg of oxycodone per day which allowed me to go back to work rather than filing for permanent disability at age 52. Connie develops long term relationships with her patients. As far as pain patients on opioids go, I know Connie is concerned for patients who are on high doses of opioids and she sees them regularly. What could appear as if she was ignoring a patient's report of inappropriate use of their RX, was most likely a reflection of the relationship where Connie knew this patient was in danger of suicide or turning to street drugs if she tried to immediately taper the patient. This report does an injustice to the relationship aspect where Connie may have needed some months of conversation to prepare this patient for the taper, both emotionally and physically. Connie understands all the forces at play when a chronic pain patient develops an addiction/inappropriate relationship with opioids. She understands the potential for suicide and/or resorting to street drugs if a patient is forced into taper before they are ready. The opioid crisis was not created by Connie, however, she uses whatever options are needed to treat pain patients with compassion. She listens to her patients and responds based on what each individual patient needs. She weighs the risks vs benefits and prior to the 2016 government guidelines around opioid subscribing, no patient had overdosed nor committed suicide over her opioid prescribing methods or their untreated pain. Connie knows what she is doing and is very meticulous in her care. Since 2016 and the pressure to reduce opioid subscribing, she has had patients who have suffered more from the taper than they ever did from the prescribing at levels required for pain relief. Running a pain clinic is challenging. Many physicians are not brave enough nor compassionate enough to treat patients who live in chronic unremitting pain. This situation is a travesty and complete injustice to the best primary care physician in Humboldt County and possibly the entire country.
ReplyDeleteThe CDC has come out and said the guidelines were NOT ment for chronic pain patients. I was told they were still going after doctors that weren't sticking to it. This shows everyone they are. When will it end? People are suffering! They are killing themselves because they can't live with the pain. It isn't the chronic pain patients that are overdosing! They know it too! Most of the overdoses are people getting fentanyl on the streets! Drug cartels are substituting fentanyl for other drugs and telling people it's heroine or its percaset. It had nothing to do with chronic pain patients! It's all government propaganda! I know people that have overdosed. I know people that committed suicide because their meds were taken away! I'm a chronic pain patient. I have had my meds cut. I can't even function most days because my pain is out of control! I do feel the government is committing genocide. There is so much more going on that people are aware of. The media doesn't explain all sides. People need to wake up! Support the doctors! Join groups that are fighting for our rights! Spread the word! Write to your senators!
ReplyDeleteI am in the same situation. The medical board has me so worried that I don’t want to prescribe any pain medications for any reason. I refer to the CDC guidelines and Rex Tylenol or Motrin and meditate.
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