i'm so movie

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

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.