Doctors need to take responsibility and show some caring toward their patients! To allow people to remain in pain is criminal.
Marilyn
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>At Mon, 6 May 2002, Marilyn Vaughan wrote:
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>>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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