Is it ethical for my doctor to, instead of prescribing any sort of painkillers, to tell me to continue smoking illegal drugs and drinking alcohol to control the constant pain I'm in? I asked him to put it in writing but he refused. Then I started to argue and he told me I was being hysterical and unreasonable. He gave me sleeping pills and tranquilisers, but no painkillers.
I think doctors find intractable problems an insult to their ego. They find it offensive that I am in pain, and cannot process their favourite drugs, and need something more. They seem to think that, despite the fact I can obviously find other drugs freely in the community, I want to (and need to) spend hours and hours and hours of time and endure insult after insult after insult from doctors in order to find pain relief that works. If I wanted to buy mophine or pethidine on the black market, I could. But I'm (foolishly, I'm coming to suspect) trying to work within the rules.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Doesn't anyone know a crooked doctor?! God! This damn ethical country. I might have to find a Mexican vetinary student or something...
Posted by phreq at June 14, 2005 08:34 PM | TrackBack