"Pain management with new doctor"

The words "Patients Come First" and "Do No Harm" are proudly on display in this hospital! That is far from my experience! I have been a chronic pain sufferer for over 20 years, since a botched surgery at another hospital.

I went through 3 years of Multidiscipline treatments with different specialists and previous pain units. I have been through blind drug trials to find what worked best for my pain, I was trialed on so many different drugs over years. Finally, my doctors found a balance that worked for me, it worked for the last 20 years. No changes in dosage or strength and I was able to live a reasonable pain managed life. I worked, raised a family and functioned reasonably in life. Then this year, I get assigned a new doctor to my management because apparently, the doctor I had here for years had retired, is what I was told.

Without even a face to face appointment, this new doctor I believe, changed my medication because apparently it was no longer working. (it was still working fine) Then it was because of statistics I believe, but I've never been one of those statistics that has had any problems ever, in fact, I offered myself up for study! Then I believe it was because of the law, I feel that is also not true. When I did finally have a face to face consult with my new specialist and I told them that the medication they changed me to was causing terrible side effects to me, they asked what I would like them to do about it. I told them I just wanted my old medication back and that I had a letter from the lawmakers themselves that questioned why they changed me in the first instance. I recalled they told me they weren't interested in what I had from whoever I say it's from. I believe they wouldn't even read the letter that I had from the Federal Health Minister about my treatment. They just turned to me and said, as I recalled, too bad, get over it and learn to live with it.

I can no longer work, I have a great deal of pain and anxiety and am experiencing things that I have never had to deal with. So their whole "Patients Come First" and the doctors "Do No Harm" is, based on my experience, a joke at this hospital! In my opinion, you don't want to be treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Pain Management Unit! I believe they don't care!