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Yes I donate as often as I am allowed, my husband and daughter have also began donating with my coaxing, both have O+ blood type. On my last donation I learned that a person who has obtained a tattoo in a licensed shop can now donate. This was not allowed for up to one year after receiving a tattoo prior to March 2010 I believe.

I recently resigned from a job I held for over 2 years, upon resigning I learned that my name and credentials along with a couple of other nurses (I was not given the names) was signed without my knowledge to some patient visits and submitted to Medicare. These visits were not completed or the persons signing could not find them for a Medicare Audit. I want to report it to both Medicare and the Department of Regulations, however I am afraid of some sort of retaliation, besides the fact that I am not sure how to report and who do I go to first, the Regulations Department or Medicare. I was also informed that Administrators approved of this and several people helped in this fraud. The owner of the company was conveniently out of town, and knows the law. Please if anyone out there can help me figure this out I would appreciate it, just thinking about it causes me great anxiety.

My specialty has been in subtance abuse for 8yrs and whether they are seekers or not they are in pain, withdraw does cause a patient to go into immediate pain as soon as the pain med wears off so yes now they are seeking, intentionnally or not, the patient may not be aware that they have developed a problem or that they are developing a problem, I have to say that it is up to the M.D. to determine what the patient needs are all we can do is continue to educate ourselves in the field we specialize in, so that we can educate our patients, and pray for the patients we work for, there are alot of excellent sites you can look up in regards to addictions and recognizing withdraw Sx, in order to differentiate the seeker from a new patient, who can be taught other ways of pain management, because once addicted to pills, I have learned that it is a long road to freedom. Some withdraw symptoms are chills, dialated pupils, muscle aches, their back and leg hurt the most, sweats, yawning, teary eyes, runny nose and difficulty sleeping, but most commonly you will find the patient over medicating or switching doctors alot, some patient frequent the E.R. so they can get an immediate script for pain medication these are definite tell tail signs. But they are still patients none the less and they still have a sickness that needs to be treated.:redbeathe