I am fortunate too with my PM doc...Although at our first appt I layed out the ground rules...I had just come from a hospital PM doc that was a bully. Besides telling me that he did not write scripts, he interferred with my drugs and would not allow certain drugs. He wrote letters to my pcp and told him what to prescribe. When I asked my pcp for Topamax instead of Neurontin and he sent a report telling my pcp not to prescribe it just because he had a preference for one over the other...I fired him....He could not give me a good reason not to take Topamax, just that he liked Neurontin better...

So when I met with the PM doc I have now I told him if he tried to force me to take a certain drug, I would walk...and I let him know that my spinal problems were extensive and we both knew he would be seeing me for a very long time and he would be making lots of money from my condition. He agreed and laughed...I went on to tell him I did not want opiates ...and he told me I was his favorite kind of patient....