Sibling?

[Ph128]

Acceptable, NO! Possible, yes! Especially if she took more than prescribed, perhaps two pills at once instead of one, or took them more often than they were prescribed. To do anything with this, you will have to be able to prove that the doc was overprescribing.

Oxy causes respiratory depression, so yes, some people do have a bad reaction to it, and others get these reactions if they take too much. If her dose was jumped, and not tapered up, then she could have had these reactions unexpectedly. For instance going from 20mgs to 80mgs instead of 30mgs to 40mgs and etc. IF the doc did this, then yes, he screwed up and should have known better. But as I said, you still have to be able to prove it.

Ok!
Could it be possible she was not following the doctor's orders?
I agree it does sound like she wasn't if she was being prescribed the proper amount!
But the doctor already knew that at least a year before she died!
If this was the situation, what would a responsible doctor do if he knew his patient was doing this?
Would it be ok to give a loaded gun to someone who was suicidal? I mean after all you didn't shoot the person, they did it to themselves but if you KNEW the person would probably do something crazy with the gun, like shoot themselves, wouldn't you bare some responsibility by giving them the gun?
I'm not saying that's what happened at all and we will probably never know, thanks to the undertaker who embalmed the body, when knowing full and well an autopsy was going to be done!
Thanks to both the husband and undertaker for not notifying authorities of her death! Which is a violation of law! The autopsy showed nothing wrong with her! Toxicology was ruined!
After talking to other funeral homes, they said they always ask if fluid samples should be saved when a pending autopsy will be done!
All involved are buds here!
If this happened to your family member, what would you do!
Say "Oh Well!"

 

[zippysgoddess]

I am not saying I blame you at all for being upset, if it was one of my family members, I would be just as upset, well at least with certain relatives, there are others I might not even notice were gone. (OOPS, Did I say that?)

Anyway, unless she was in a program for pain where the doc was checking her blood and urine on a regular basis to make sure she was taking the meds she was prescribed, and not overusing them, he would not really have anyway of knowing if she was taking too many at once, or if she was having a bad reaction unless she told him.

Even if you called and told the doc, he can't just take your word for it, he has no way of knowing if you are being honest either, so he has to discuss it with her, and if she and/or her husband denied it all, then he more than likely would just take their word for it, and issue a warning about the dangers.

Also when someone is on Oxy, you can't just cut them off abruptly because of the suspicion of abuse or bad reactions, the withdrawals after someone has been on it for awhile can be as bad as the drug itself.

I am not saying the doc might not bear some responsibility here, just showing you the other possibilities on this aspect of it.

I used to be on Oxy, and am not on Ms Contin, they both come with warnings to watch for those types of reactions involving respiratory depression and if it happens to see a doctor immediately.