I'm a chronic pain patient or #CPP, who's disabled. Now presenting an insanely long thread abt the way we're mistreated and misrepresented:
I like med dramas like New Amsterdam (& Grey’s Anatomy, ER). But as a #CPP, after last week’s episode I’m not sure I can keep watching. /1 All these shows are overly-dramatic (soap operas?), taking once-in-a-lifetime cases or insane accidents and pretending stuff like that happens nonstop. It doesn’t.
They like to dabble in current events. I’ve even had an article I’ve written for the Trib featured as a storyline 2/

Sharing again because there's a huge population I ignored in writing this: Pharmacists. A recent interaction left me in tears- not for the reason you'd think- when yet another pharmacist refused to fill pain meds. We both yelled but it ended with a hug. 1/
chicagotribune.com/columns/ct-liv… I was out of state when my Rx was due. the VERY pharmacist I quote in my column who invoked her right not to fill for me was working while I visited family in GA. She again told me no, again came with attitude. Knowing I would have to book a last-minute flight home and miss my 2/