Re: Can I share...found relief from new med
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Mon May 6 17:48:14 2002
At Mon, 6 May 2002, Marilyn Vaughan wrote:
>
>One thing that surprises me is how women have been able to find doctors
>willing to prescribe narcotics for severe pain. Doctors seem very
>reluctant here in Iowa to go that route.
>
>If you have a chance, read the article in the latest Health magazine
>about the Bergman family who sued the family doctor for not providing
>adequate pain management for their dying father.
>
What? Didn't you get the message? Pain relief for the dying is
politically popular, but if you have the audacity to keep on LIVING,
well the word is, "too bad, sucker..."
You know how when you're a kid and you broke something, how you would
try to hide it, or clumsily glue it back together, or make it look like
your little brother did it? Well we are the people that the surgeons
"broke." They would like nothing better than for us all to die or just
go away or whatever so they won't be constantly reminded of how badly
they f***ed up. Prescribing adequate pain control to the people that
one has caused to be in chronic pain would be part of the
grown-up-take-responsibility-for-your-mistakes way of conducting one's
life. And for a lot of surgeons out there, "pigs fly" and "hell freezes
over" come to mind to go along with the phrase "take responsibility for
your mistakes."
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cathy :-)
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