FENTANYL

Clin spec with a minor rant here. I keep getting notifications from the “Noctor” community, which, if you’re not familiar with it, is a sub dedicated to vilifying mid-level providers, and putting MDs and DOs up on a pedestal as paragons of deep medical knowledge. In my 10 years of practice, I have d

A guy walked into the pharmacy today holding some pills saying he needed help identifying them. Happens often. As I started to pull up good ol’ pill identifier on google, he proceeds to say “yeah I just want to be sure, I bought some perocets from this guy but how do I know if it’s not laced with fe

Nothing brings more chaos than the label printer jamming at 5pm with a line of angry patients breathing down your neck. One time I nearly cried into the paper tray. Forget fentanyl, Epson is my real enemy.

As someone who has dealt with fentanyl every day in some regard for the last 20 years, it is cringeworthy. I am as far from a grammar and vocabulary police officer as you can get, but the news rarely seems to come from people that are actually versed in the subject matter. At the very least, we ca

Long time lurker first time poster. Today I was blown away. Fentanyl prescribed to a patient that has received some opiates, back in JANUARY, but for small three to four day Rxs. Patient was prescribed fentanyl 12 mg patches by a PCP. I was going through product verification and did my due diligenc