Anyone who watched "60 Minutes" tonight got to see what many of us already 
know - many doctors are dicks who don't give a hoot about the comfort of 
patients.   A doctor in Virginia was successfully treating chronic pain 
patients with high doses of narcotics.  So, between the Virginia medical 
board and the Drug Enforcement Administration, the licenses of both the 
doctor and the pharmacist who filled most of the doc's prescriptions were 
revoked.  This acttion drove at least one of the doctor's patients to 
suicide, after he could no longer get relief for his pain.  Does the medical 
board or DEA care?  Hell, no!  The board justifies its action by saying the 
doctor's treatment was unconventional.  Guess what, assholes - CONVENTIONAL 
TREATMENT METHODS HAVEN'T WORKED!!!  Heaven forbid chronic pain patients 
actually get helped, and are able to live their lives more comfortably.  
Overpaid sadists - that's all most of these quacks are.  May they themselves 
be stricken with chronic severe pain, and then be ignored.  *adh*
--- MsgedSQ/2 3.35
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