A nurse practitioner told me that if someone was to be in a bad car accident and is rushed to the ER in critical condition and doesn't have their photo ID on them, that the patient will be denied pain medicine as it's a "federally controlled substance" and they have no photo ID on their person.
This is a hypothetical question, but doesn't sound correct.
Surely if a patient is a serious accident, say, as a passenger, and is rushed in the ambulance with serious enough injuries to place them in the ER to begin with and simply lacks their govt photo ID, that they will not receive pain medicine/pain relief while in the ER. Surely sometimes accidents happen that justify pain medicine or pain IVs while someone is n an ER-- camping trips come to mind where someone might be lacking their wallet/photo ID. They are a USA legal citizen with an SSN, employed, and health insurance, just don't have their photo ID on their person.
Is that true? No pain relief in an ER with a serious injury if you don't have your photo on you? What if the patient doesn't have local family unable to go find the photo ID or the photo ID is unrecoverable after a bad car crash-- they have to suffer in pain in serious condition or critical condition all because pain relief is a federally controlled substance, even in an ER, just because they don't have a photo ID on them?
