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I don't think I've ever read a more heartless and unempathetic reply in my whole life.
Your post, and the linked article, boiled down, basically all say that doctors should ignore pain and patients who are in pain should just suck it up and not think about it.
I'm very glad that medical science doesn't treat patients in such a cold and uncaring manner. By this logic, there's no reason to bother with anesthetic during or after surgery, because 'pain is part of life'. There's no reason to do joint replacements, because 'pain is part of life' and if the person can't walk more than 10' without pain too fucking bad for them.
Perhaps someday there will be an objective way to measure pain- some scanner that can read the signals going up the spinal cord or can read activations of nerve endings. But until then, this is what we've got.
I encourage you to take a serious look in the mirror and think about what kind of person you want to be. Because right now you're someone that looks at a fellow human who is suffering and says 'too bad, we shouldn't lift a finger to help them'.
Seems you want to repeat history.
The fact is there is no objective measurement of pain & the dangerous addictiveness of those drugs has already caused an epidemic of deaths. Some doctors take their oath to first do no harm very seriously. As unpleasant as pain is, it doesn't cause death.
Modern society's excessive preoccupation with pain relief has caused a crisis, and no lawsuit or monetary relief can undo all those needless deaths. Perhaps you should take a look in the mirror & learn some goddamn sense.
At least they'll live.
But what is the point of living if there's no quality of life?
This is the difference between treating a patient as a person and ignoring the person but treating the disease as a broken machine.
Almost any medical treatment has potential or real side effects, possibly including death. Sometimes those side effects happen, and the risk is weighed against the benefit.
Pain relief is no different. You're acting like an opioid pill is a death sentence. The fact is under proper medical care and supervision they can be quite safe.
The UNsafe things, the people who get addicted and die, are people who were NOT treated properly to begin with- given high dose extended release opioids (creating dependence), then cut off cold turkey. Proper protocol for that is a wean-off protocol where the dose is reduced slowly over time so the body adjusts without huge withdrawal. If the person turns to street drugs and ODs you're right money can't bring them back. But the problem is the prescriber that did an unsafe protocol, and the company that paid them to do it.
Blaming the pill for effects caused by medical mistreatment is stupid.