Dr. Patrick P’s Story

A patient was controlling their high blood pressure with medication. The insurance company changed which prescription it would cover, but the patient had a previous bad reaction to that specific drug. What ultimately happened was this patient said, well I can’t, I’ll just wait to get the authorization the doctor is going to put through for me for what I was on before. In the meantime, the patient didn’t take their medication, their high blood pressure went out of control and they had a stroke.