Tracy Fossum - Turned away by an Alberta hospital as a "drug seeker"
The Roy Green Show · Global News / Curiouscast
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Show Notes
A group of chronic pain patients is calling on the Alberta Minister of Health to investigate the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta to investigate the College for its "unwarranted and secretive cautioning and sanctioning of doctors " who prescribe or continue long in-place prescribing of opioids to provide pain (agony) patients with some degree of quality of life.
Guest: Tracy Fossum. Founder: Helpalbertaspain.com. Multi-decade chronic pain patient who, while displaying symptoms of a heart attack, was turned away by an Alberta hospital as a "drug seeker". Tracy Fossum later presented back at hospital with a heart attack in progress.
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