>----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina Shelby" <tshelby@usit.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: [chronicpain] Pain does not have a Moral Value
> >Delivered-To: chronicpain@apollo.dns-solutions.net
> >Date: 14 Feb 2000 04:40:10 -0000
> >From: jim@goedhart.com
> >To: chronicpain@list.goedhart.com
> >Subject: [chronicpain] Pain does not have a Moral Value
> >Sender: owner-chronicpain@list.goedhart.com
> >Reply-To: chronicpain@list.goedhart.com
> >
> >Here's one of my favorite messages by some doctor. Don't really know
him,
> >or who he is but he has the right idea. The next time your doctor says
you
> >can't have the medication you need for pain, hand him this. This really
> >says it all.
> >
> >-----------------------
> >
> >-----------------------
> > "Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs cannot have a moral value:
> >-----------------------
> >they're pills. The thing that has a moral value is life. Life is good.
> >Life is a gift. Life should be cherished. Life should be promoted. life
> >should be supported. That's what we're supposed to do. We should not be
> >moralizing about whether pills are good or bad. If you are sick and can
> >use a pill to live your life, if taking pills let you live your life,
> >take care of your children and be a part of your community, then that
> >pill sustains your life and is good. If someone is a drug addict and
> >they can't deal with their lives, they take a pill to escape their
> >lives, because they can't face the problems they have to deal with, and
> >now because of that same pill they are not living, they are abusing the
> >drug: that pill is bad. The pill is not good or bad, it's how it relates
> >to life."
> > Dan Brookoff, MD, Internal Medicine and
> >Medical
> > Oncology, Memphis TN
> >
>