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Gerry Connolly: “I mean my experience, frankly, is that physicians are all too ready to prescribe opioids, and look at you kind of funny…”

On the recordJune 18, 2019
I mean my experience, frankly, is that physicians are all too ready to prescribe opioids, and look at you kind of funny as a patient if you object.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the tendency of physicians to readily prescribe opioids without considering patient objections.

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