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Doctor denying meds to medical marijuana patients.

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by planty, Dec 11, 2012.

  1. #1 planty, Dec 11, 2012
    I tried to find something about this on the site and came up with nothing. If this has been touched on, I'm sorry for making a redundant post.

    My mother has Kaiser Permanente she is on various medications for depression and scoliosis. She just switched to Kaiser over the last year and all her records were being looked over. The doctors adjusted her meds and started her on new meds. Well one of he new medications for depression caused her to break out into a terrible rash. She was very upset, as this is the third med that has caused a reaction. She decided to ask her psychiatrist what her opinion on medical marijuana was. The Doctors reply was " I do not believe in it, if we find marijuana in your urine you will no longer be prescribed any other medications."

    Seriously? I was shocked. I thought it was a bluff on the doctors part. A very close friend of my husband and his mother came over for a visit two days ago. His mother had just had the exact same thing happen to her. Her Kaiser doctor did annual tests and called her into the office for the results. This was her general doctor not a specialist. This doctor basically had an intervention in the office. They called her husband into the room, and sat her down with three other staff. They then told her that her urine had marijuana in it and that if she needed a drug program they were there to help her. She laughed and said she is using medical marijuana to help ease her fibromyalgia, so she did not have to take so many of the pills she was prescribed. The doctor said that she does not believe in medical marijuana and that until she pees clean she can no longer have her medications.

    I am appalled how can they do this? We live in California. These two women are, by no means, out to score pills to get high on, or sell. They have legitimate medical conditions. They both use marijuana to help their conditions, along side their prescribed meds . They both are little old ladies for Gods sake. Is it legal for a doctor to test your urine for drugs and then use the findings this way? I'm just shocked beyond words.

    If there is any info you guys can point me to, that will give me answers I would really appreciate it.
     
  2. #2 cball, Dec 11, 2012
    it's an HMO, not a real doctors office, it's an insurance profit minded interstate commerce center...actually curing and caring for patients is the last things they have in mind...

    have mom fire them asap, no kidding about this...FIRE THEM ASAP.

    she can get a private insurance policy and local care.
     
  3. #3 scrambledegg81, Dec 11, 2012
    What cball said^. I was on Kaiser for a good 4 years, and although I wasn't an MMJ patient at the time, both my general practitioner & endocrinologist I saw told me that any illegal drugs found in my bloodwork could potentially put my policy on the line. F*** Kaiser and the horses they ride on.
     
  4. #4 scrambledegg81, Dec 11, 2012
    (Ironically I'm now on a county government-based insurance program which has no drug-testing policy of any kind...)
     
  5. #5 Rainbow mu, Dec 11, 2012
    the weed will work for her depression. if that's the only ailment your mother has tell her to fire those punks, and to find compassionate care now.
     
  6. #6 darellc, Dec 13, 2012
    Fuck that doctor tell your mom to get rid of her and if she needs insurance i'm sure she could get it privately. That dr is either a) Just wants your mom on her meds so she can get that paycheck or b) is just a stupid cunt or c)all of the above
     
  7. #7 riverroadjack, Dec 13, 2012
    hit the block, cross over to Mexico, get a brick of that green, cross back over, thats my HealthCare Plan
     
  8. #8 Sgtstadanko707, Dec 13, 2012
    I have had kaiser for 8 years now and have never been asked once if I smoked. I have been a mmj patient for 6 years now and have had multiple leg surgeries the past 2 years no questions ask.
     
  9. #9 Monkey55, Dec 13, 2012
    This is kind of ironic because Kaiser is one of the leaders in cannabis research. They have done extensive research on the health effects of it.

    *Disclaimer* I'm not sure if Kaiser is on the forefront of the research. However, they have done countless studies. I'm constantly coming across research where Kaiser was named in finding new information or debunked myths.

    M
     
  10. #10 paleolith, Dec 27, 2012
    Malpractice, anyone?
     
  11. #11 Fixxer, Dec 27, 2012
    yeah I would find a new doctor and suggest she and her friend consult with a lawyer there maybe a case here that they will take. I bet that would start a huge nationwide debate and be a big case.
     
  12. #12 Rainbow mu, Dec 27, 2012
    Doctors can legally refuse to treat patients who have illegal drugs in there system at fear of creating addiction. They classify these patients as "high risk".
     
  13. #13 kjkjogoug, Dec 28, 2012
    I don't know much about this stuff but I know for sure that pharm. companies pay off doctors to push meds. They wouldn't make $ off the herb.
     

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