Pain don't hurt.

Dejah: Pain don't hurt.

My aunt is an emergency room doctor and not a fan of pain medication.

"A little pain never hurt anyone."

/Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

doglover: Ricardo Klement: My aunt is an emergency room doctor and not a fan of pain medication.

She probably deals with all kinds of addicts.

Or she's just a biatch as evidenced by:

/Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

But I'll leave the conclusions to Ricardo.

dopeydwarf: doglover: Ricardo Klement: My aunt is an emergency room doctor and not a fan of pain medication.

She probably deals with all kinds of addicts.

Or she's just a biatch as evidenced by:

/Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

But I'll leave the conclusions to Ricardo.

Probably some combination. She points out that anything with "-caine" increases your tolerance to anything else with "-caine" in it. Cocaine addict? Novocaine might not work. So she also refuses to buy sun burn lotion with lidocaine in it. I think she's paranoid. She's also against patient self-medication, even though studies have consistently shown that patients end up using LESS medication. (Because if the nurse offers, the answer is invariably "yes" for fear that the nurse won't be back before the current dose wears off. Whereas self-dosing mostly happens when it hurts.)

She's part of the reason I have a low opinion of doctors when it comes to science.

doglover: Ricardo Klement: She's part of the reason I have a low opinion of doctors when it comes to science.

Doctors aren't scientists. They don't do research and develop new treatments.

Doctors are just practitioners of medicine. They buy they pills the scientists make and use the tools scientists develop and repeat the things that work well while avoiding those things that don't.

Pro-tip: many scientists are doctors, just not medical doctors. Though many of the scientists I've met aren't douchebags and don't insist that you call them "Dr. Suchandsuch."

Ricardo Klement: "A little pain never hurt anyone."

/Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Yeah, I'm sure he would have learned some invaluable life lessons in his remaining days from that theory.

dopeydwarf: doglover: Ricardo Klement: She's part of the reason I have a low opinion of doctors when it comes to science.

Doctors aren't scientists. They don't do research and develop new treatments.

Doctors are just practitioners of medicine. They buy they pills the scientists make and use the tools scientists develop and repeat the things that work well while avoiding those things that don't.

Pro-tip: many scientists are doctors, just not medical doctors. Though many of the scientists I've met aren't douchebags and don't insist that you call them "Dr. Suchandsuch."

Both of my brothers-in-law are PHD doctors... I was several years in before I knew that.

It really really sucks to be the parent of a kid that doesn't feel pain. Mix that in with some mental retardation and you have the living hell that one of my buddies has to go though. The kid isn't smart enough to think "gee I just got hit by a car. That should have damaged me maybe I should lay here till someone checks me out". He just tries to get up and run off on a broken leg. And not just a little broken, compound broken broken.

Ewww gives me chills just thinking about it

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It really really sucks to be the parent of a kid that doesn't feel pain. Mix that in with some mental retardation and you have the living hell that one of my buddies has to go though. The kid isn't smart enough to think "gee I just got hit by a car. That should have damaged me maybe I should lay here till someone checks me out". He just tries to get up and run off on a broken leg. And not just a little broken, compound broken broken.

Ewww gives me chills just thinking about it



There truly is a 'shop for everything.

doglover: Ricardo Klement: She's part of the reason I have a low opinion of doctors when it comes to science.

Doctors aren't scientists. They don't do research and develop new treatments.

Doctors are just practitioners of medicine. They buy they pills the scientists make and use the tools scientists develop and repeat the things that work well while avoiding those things that don't.

I wish I shared your optimism about M.D.'s

Pain is the body's way of saying SOMETHING IS FARKING WRONG!!! DEAL WITH IT NOW! If that response isn't there, the broken bits won't get taken care of until things get way bad. The opposite also sucks ass. What do you do when your nervous system goes into overdrive and thinks all sensation is pain?

Well, at least his brothers suicide would have actually been painless.

INeedAName: deffuse: Well, at least his brothers suicide would have actually been painless.

Suicide is painless. Although, it brings on many changes. I would take or leave them, if I could.

♫♪ Do de do do doo doo ♪

Ricardo Klement: Dejah: Pain don't hurt.

My aunt is an emergency room doctor and not a fan of pain medication.

"A little pain never hurt anyone."

/Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

What an idiot.

DoBeDoBeDo: Holy fark does he also have brittle bone disease? Every other sentence is about a broken bone.

If he did, I bet he would be the best damn pilot in the Alliance.Ricardo Klement: Seriously - she objected to giving my grandfather morphine when he was in his final days suffering from pancreatic cancer.

She sounds like a biatch. Had send my mom to the ER (called an ambulance) for what we later found out was a server infection in her spine. She was partly delirious and in a lot of pain. The attending refused to give her anything because 'she seemed high'. I told him she was just out of it. He said "if she was really hurting, she'd be writhing more" I asked him what the proper amount of writhing would be to get her some help for the pain and he just said "she doesn't need anything else". Farking asshole. She wasn't on drugs, her brain was addled from fever and infection. About an hour or two later they did a MRI and realised "holy fark, she needs surgery!" Two hours later she was in the OR and stayed in the hospital for almost two weeks.

well it sure doesn't help with being stabbed through the chest with a plutonium rod.

/spoilers above.

SithLord: feel no apathy for anyone or anything? Is there a disease name for that?

Hm?

It would be nice if you could turn pain off locally for a specified amount of time. Kind of like a snooze button.

SithLord: What if you've closed yourself off for emotional pain and feel no apathy for anyone or anything? Is there a disease name for that?

sociopath