WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Sci" on 11-17-05 16:09

 -> Cindy Haglund wrote to Kevin Klement, "SCI" on 10-27-05 10:04
 ->  CH> 0n (25 Oct 05) Kevin Klement wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE...
 ->  KK> Sunday October 23 2005, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE writes to KEVIN KLEMENT:

 ->  CH>  In the US, Keven, the Current Administration's Stand On Health
 ->  CH> Care For the Poor (read: millions of people): is: "Pray".

 -> They took out the "Dig a ditch" part?

 -> For a fact, we too have abuses for health care, but the dispensation
 -> is hard to find, even *if* you may need it. Our system operates on a
 -> poverty level, where yours works by a profit model.

 WC> Pain relief for those in need has become vastly more difficult for
 WC> those with need due to the "war on drugs."

That *is* a side effect. And then we hear about Michael Jackson, and
Rush Limbaugh, that only serves to heighten the paranoia about
analgesics. 

Sure I sat on my recliner for the last two days recovering from a
forced bus ride, but I would not be without the total control of my
mind perceiving the events. Now, for palliative care, I will not preach
an iota, but if another forty YO asks me, I tell them that narcotic
analgesics are a WEAK substitute for our own endorphin/adrenaline
system.

Sure, extreme physical pain 24x7, 365 will kill us, but there are some
*amazing* and phenomenal safeguards in place that keep us
functioning. If you desire to be medicated, I'd make sure you know
what the other side of that sword holds.

 WC> Used to be a M.D. G.P. could just prescribe.
 WC> Now you need a MRI, see an orthopedic surgeon and then go
 WC> to a pain management clinic to get relief.

Been there...

 WC> I can't even afford the co-pays for all this.

 WC> OTOH an aquaintance of mine went to the emergency room 11
 WC> times last year for prescription drug overdoses!

 WC> The 12th time he went straight to the morgue.

Haven't done that. Frankly, I wonder why I'm still standing. /-:

 WC> An out and out drug addict not welcome in my home for years he had no
 WC> trouble at all getting all the prescription narcotics he wanted.
 WC> He was downing 40 - 60 narcotic pills a day.

 WC> I called last January and got "number no longer in service."
 WC> Immediately I went to www.sptimes.com and checking the obituaries
 WC> found he'd died Dec. 25, 2004.

 WC> I'd been expecting this for quite some time, he was 43.

Truth be told, it sounds like he died many years previously.

 WC> I'd be grateful for the pills he took in two days for an entire
 WC> year's time span.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you here Wayne.

No questioning your need for relief, but the relief can be hard to
live without. My first dose, I was in tears *without* the pain. From
then, I thought I couldn't live without it.

I suspect you are practised in Eastern arts of mediation, and
relaxation? I thought I was pretty good at them too, but when they
weren't keeping up to my workload, I had to visit the Chief
Neurologist before I was taken seriously. That was taken as a direct
affront by my previous MD, and his staff, where all sorts of ill will
was exchanged. I thought they were petty, and I suspect they thought I
was just a punk kid looking for a high.

Little did my protest about their action plan make it to my charts. I
wanted to leave my facility, to REDUCE my dependence on the old codger
and the narcs, where my chart read that I was just looking for a
Dr. Feelgood. Polar opposites to be sure, but who's going to be taken
at their word?

"I need a new MD. All my guy is doing, is doping me up, and sending me
home. Please, I want to be off them, and I want to try less than
traditional treatments, if it will mean so much as one less pill I'd
have to take in a day."

"Mr. Bradley is an addict."

Petty idiots IMO. Smart idiots to be sure, but how childish can a
professional be? 



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