Once again, I read the Intractable Pain Act (along with the section of it known as the “Pain Patient’s Bill of Rights”) which was passed by the Tennessee House and Senate in 2001 and repealed in 2015.
I did not see anything in the legislation that supports the statement made by Knox News columnist Frank Cagle that “when a patient was discharged from the hospital, they had to sign a form saying they have been issued all the pain medicine they wanted. If they didn’t get all the pain pills they wanted, the doctor could be sanctioned.”