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Well, I will be NOW expecting some FReeper to cite the exceptions s/he knows about which make my statement moot, untrue or not "good enough" or that s/he knows people who get NO relief from morphine or that it REALLY is no miracle at all.
Any moment now. Mr.s. Gainsayer?? Yoohoo...
Was the decision based on tax payer dollars or was it a doctors professional opinion?
I’m very glad morphine worked for your husband. It’s really a gift from God and yet so many people abuse it. I hope no one says anything negative about your post.
Morphine is a blessing for those suffering extreme pain.
It is my opinion that Stage 1 or 2 cancers have a chance for a cure, but spending half a million dollars on chemo for a person over 75 with stage 4 or 5 cancer is almost always devastating, because even with a couple of months in remission the cancer re occurs shortly thereafter. Too much suffering with false hope, and I have seen that.
Better to let someone have that last six months in peace with their family. Of course it should be between them and their doctor, and not up to government to decide.
GET OVER IT!!
(Glad you dared to write “your” opinion!...Mine too..but now we can be a minority of a minority together... Bring ‘em on!
morphine is great. you just don’t want them giving you so much they euthanize you to save money. which places have done to people.
What you’re describing is exactly what Obama meant when he spoke about reducing the cost of prolonging grandma’s life with surgical procedures: “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”
The latest pc-think among academic physicians has successfully transformed many of them into non-thinking tools of the left.
Let’s assist the leftists in understanding that if their agenda had any value whatsoever they wouldn’t have to disguise or sugar coat it.
it seems there was a taboo on morphine treatments for pain in past years and maybe it was because of abuse
do you know what i am talking about it seems there was a huge debate about (20) + - years ago about pain management and the refusal of health providers to apply necessary medications for such
and anyone who says morphine doesn’t help ha ha ha
neither does the methadone
What you’re describing is exactly what Obama meant when he spoke about reducing the cost of prolonging grandma’s life with surgical procedures: “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”
The latest pc-think among academic physicians has successfully transformed many of them into non-thinking tools of the left.
Let’s assist the leftists in understanding that if their agenda had any value whatsoever they wouldn’t have to disguise or sugar coat it.
I’m allergic to narcotics.
Would you dispatch NICE with a bullet?
Having decided that it’s ‘OK’ to deny one treatment (chemo) to someone based on age, why on earth do you think they would be obligated to provide another treatment (morphine)?
Having broken a trust (that they will treat you), why wouldn’t they break a trust (that they will treat you)?
Death panels are OK as long as they provide adequate morphine?
Don’t you think there are lots of sickos who populate the coming death panels that will giggle at the idea of denying some good conservative ANY treatment. Based on age. Or prior condition. Or whatever.
If you don’t think the kind of person who get their jollies hurting someone will be the same kind of person who will populate the ‘decision panels’ you haven’t paid attention to human nature or that of people who populate bureaucracies. And they will probably get giant (censored) just thinking about the pain your loved one is in.
I can tell you for a fact morphine does not relieve pain for me. It does make the wall crawl however.
Heroin may in fact actually work. A bill was introduced 20 years or so ago that would allow heroin to be used with cancer patients, but the democrats shot it down. Would have cost nothing because they would have used confiscated drugs.
I don’t disagree that morphine is a wonderful drug for pain, but I have learned from the liberal media and our president that apparently marijuana is the new “miracle drug” that needs to be prescribed for, well, everything!