{"id":1634669,"date":"2024-04-28T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b70cdaf609feec24069987c33519569b"},"modified":"2024-04-28T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T15:54:05","slug":"physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/28\/physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicians Like Me Must Oppose Medical Discrimination Against Methadone Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working as a physician at our local county hospital at San Francisco General recently, I cared for a patient I will call Jack. He stuck out to me because he had been in the hospital for two months, an exceptionally long time for a hospital admission, as most people are only admitted for three to five days. He&rsquo;d been hospitalized for a stroke and needed post-acute rehabilitation in a skilled...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/physicians-like-me-must-oppose-medical-discrimination-against-methadone-patients\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methadone patients are routinely denied the care they need, ultimately exacerbating health disparities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[879,8100,3493,63954,4711,3789,870,4729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634671,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634669\/revisions\/1634671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}