What does your contract say about your duty to update your contact information, and to respond to messages? Was the letter not mailed to you?
Even if you have no access through friends or family, why don't you check your messages from a public location with free Internet access, such as the public library?
You either got the message or you didn't. If you got the message and didn't understand that you needed to respond, you can argue that the doctor did not make it sufficiently clear that you needed to respond in a prompt manner. But you say that you didn't get the message, so it doesn't make a difference whether or not you would have understood the urgency of your need to respond before you were terminated as a patient.Quoting mrlookitup
As you note, he successfully left a message for you at a number that you provided, and you did not check your messages. He did not get a notice that your Internet was down or that you hadn't paid your cell phone bill.Quoting mrlookitup
Again, you either received the message before you were terminated, or you didn't. You say that you didn't, so it makes no difference what he could have said.Quoting mrlookitup
You found a new doctor, and... the new doctor would not prescribe additional medication or a taper?Quoting mrlookitup
Acute withdrawal symptoms should have passed within three or four days.Quoting mrlookitup
You are stating that you have an acute pain condition. You spent two days in the hospital. Why didn't the hospital place you on a taper or provide pain management? Why can't you find a pain management doctor who can work from the hospital records?
To me, your story is missing some important details, and it seems that the root of your problem finding a new pain management doctor is not associated with any difficulty in obtaining your medical records from your former doctor.
One way or another, your original doctor should have been willing to provide enough records to your new doctor to ensure continuity of care. If the new doctor did not accept you as a patient, as would appear to be the case from your suggestion that you were not able to get a continuation of your pain medications or a taper from that doctor, then that would not apply.

