My father is a nurse, and he's also lived with chronic pain for ~20 years (turns out rural nursing in the 80s/90s without all the lifting tech and OHS will fuck up your back).
He fights so hard for his patients' rights to pain medication.
He fights so hard to make his patients feel heard about their pain, and to convince them that they're allowed to have access to the pain meds that have been prescribed to them.
It genuinely broke my fucking heart seeing him in hospital after a serious motorbike accident (caused by him running out of his regular pain meds, so the extra mental noise from the pain meant he mis-judged a corner), with 20-something fractures and a punctured lung, being given less than his everyday baseline pain medication and then being accused of being difficult and drug-seeking.
No fucking kidding. If you had more than a dozen fractures just to your ribcage (front and back, ie the thing that you're physically lying on, and that moves whey you breathe), and had also been awake for 2 days straight because of the pain, you might want some fucking drugs, too.
Denying pain medication to people in pain is literally torture.
If you work in the medical/healthcare field and are so terrified of addicts that you're happy to torture your patients, you should be barred from the field. Torturing people in pain should not be a systematic stance; it should be an abhorrence.
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