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Newshawk: chip
Pubdate: Mon, 13 Jun 2005
Source: Greenville News (SC)
Copyright: 2005 The Greenville News
Contact:
Website: http://greenvillenews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/877
Author: Edwin Leap
Note: Edwin Leap is a physician and writer. He lives in Tamassee. He is the
author of "Working Knights," a book of insights into medicine
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?232 (Chronic Pain)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/oxycontin.htm (Oxycontin/Oxycodone)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?136 (Methadone)
MANY PEOPLE HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO PAIN MEDICINE
When we treat people, it is our duty to do it using as much science as
possible.
I still remember the woman who came to the hospital in the middle of
the night for chronic headaches. Her pain was terrible, she said. She
had already taken the powerful narcotics she used daily, and yet her
"chronic pain" was worse.
She said to me, with slurred speech, "You haave to helppp zzzzzz." And
with that, she drifted off to sleep. In a person with a sudden, new
onset headache, that would have been cause for alarm. It would have
been reason for a CAT scan of her brain, maybe even for a lumbar
puncture ( spinal tap ) to look for a bleeding aneurysm or meningitis. In her case, however, this was just another normal day. I looked at
her husband, who said with a sigh, "Why don't I just take her on home."
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MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin
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