>----- Original Message -----
From: RSH4799 <rsh4799@worldnet.att.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [chronicpain] Pain does not have a Moral Value
> Yes but for those on high doses, the doctors favorite excuse is his
license
> is in jeopardy. The state wants to know why he is prescribing narcotics to
> people in chronic pain who have a bonifide reason and who recieve
disability
> for it and need it? Something sounds funny here. Why do the doctors always
> use that excuse for when they don't want you as a patient?
>> ----- 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
> > >
> >
>