Posted 2/10/2011 9:57 PM (GMT 0)
Another thing that might help is to have your gastro doc write a cover letter that you can present to the ER whenever you turn up, saying that you are in a research study, that you are not a drug seeker, that you regularly need help with pain management, whatever, and that you should be taken seriously and that he should be paged.
We have had members do this in the past, and it has (sometimes) helped them to be taken more seriously by the hospital staff.