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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctor here.

Fentanyl on the street kills people bc it makes you unconscious and suppresses your breathing.

When we use fentanyl in the hospital, it is in the context of intubation and a ventilator. A you don’t die. You remain unconscious while the ICU or surgical team does things you couldn’t tolerate while awake even with painkillers, such as positive pressure ventilation and operating on you.[/quote]

Please be honest. Does the hospital profit more from using opiates compared to non-opiods on patients? This push to take fentanyl, even when not necessary, has to be money driven.[/quote]

+1. This may be a topic for another thread, but I am seeing evidence that a lot of colonoscopies are prescribed because they are so profitable for the hospital, not because they are really necessary.[/quote]

Where are you "seeing" this? 1 procedure every 10 years after age 45 is the standard so far as know, and that's hardly frequent. [/quote]
You seriously don’t know which life choices aren’t a good thing for you?[/quote]

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