"The first thing they told us in medical school is that no one has ever died from pain but plenty of physicians have had their careers destroyed trying to help people who are in pain."
Comment from an emergency room physician requesting anonymity (2001)
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Now that just plain makes me *mad*! Many people have been driven to taking their own lives because of pain, and pain which could have been fairly easily and fairly adequately relieved with medications which medical ignorami have decided will turn all of us into ravening addicts.