🔴 RT to help us hold @PennStHershey Med Director accountable for false claims about #ChronicPain & rx #opioids on KATU-TV 2/12. She smeared her own patients, spread misinformation, & stigmatized all people in pain. We've asked her to apologize & correct the record. /thread
.@PennStHershey: Why do you have confidence in Dr Delone? A kid in your onco waiting room who reads this
@AmericanCancer brochure has more accurate info than she does.
cancer.org/content/dam/ca…
@AmericanCancer brochure has more accurate info than she does.
cancer.org/content/dam/ca…
.@AmericanCancer: “When pain meds are taken the right way, addiction is very rare" ('19).
@PennStHershey Med Director: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted and dependent.”
@PennStHershey Med Director: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted and dependent.”
99.7% of 694,851 patients studied didn’t develop misuse or addiction to prescribed opioids” (Ciesielski 2016).
@PennStHershey Med Director on rx #opioids: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted & dependent.”
@PennStHershey Med Director on rx #opioids: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted & dependent.”
99.4% of patients used post-op #opioids safely, acc'g to study of more than 1 million. 0.6% included people who refiled their rx (Brat '18).
@PennStHershey Med Director on rx #opioids: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted & dependent.”
@PennStHershey Med Director on rx #opioids: “We know that these do not make you more functional. They make you addicted & dependent.”
.@PennStHershey's top doc: “We’ve had patients come in & tell our docs, ‘I’m going to shoot you…. I’m going to burn down your house. I’m going to be waiting for you."
@AmericanCancer: “Most people do not...lose control when they take [#opioid] pain meds the right way.”
@AmericanCancer: “Most people do not...lose control when they take [#opioid] pain meds the right way.”
.@PennStHershey's Med Director: With #ChronicPain, “your body tricks itself into thinking you are in pain, when you are not.”
@AmericanCancer:“Pain can make it hard to do everyday things, like wash, dress, and brush your teeth. It can cause trouble with work, too.”
@AmericanCancer:“Pain can make it hard to do everyday things, like wash, dress, and brush your teeth. It can cause trouble with work, too.”
.@PennStHershey's Med Director: Patients should “give other remedies a try like medical marijuana, pet therapy, music therapy, meditation, or exercise.”
@AmericanCancer: “You have a right to pain relief.”
@AmericanCancer: “You have a right to pain relief.”
.@PennStHershey headsUP PA members have horror stories about your docs forcing them off or denying them access to FDA-approved medicine for #pain.
Your top @Geisinger doc doesn't know what she's talking about. That worries us. It should worry you.
Why won't you reply? 🚩 RT
Your top @Geisinger doc doesn't know what she's talking about. That worries us. It should worry you.
Why won't you reply? 🚩 RT
