Pain Relief in the 'Land of Plenty'

[Guest guest]

s II, MD - author of _The Milk Book_

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/douglass1.html

excerpt:

A recent example of this, published in The New York Times, is typical

of the mess we are in. Five years ago, Fisher, M.D., was arrested

by goons from the California Gestapo (known as the Attorney General’s

office) and charged with drug trafficking and murder. And what was Dr.

Fisher actually guilty of? He was guilty of relieving his patients’

severe pain with legal narcotics for which he had a license to prescribe.

After five months in jail, loss of his home and practice, he was

released and told it was all a mistake. The patients who had died

succumbed from their injuries or from medical illnesses, not from the

narcotics Dr. Fisher prescribed. But these " apologies " (if you can call

them that) are too little too late for Dr. Fisher and his family: His

practice and his reputation are ruined. And who’s going to compensate

them? No one. The state is the state. It has no sense of responsibility

or morality. It is not a source for good, as pinko liberals think in

their childish minds. It is a continuous source of evil.

Dr. Fisher’s case is not at all unusual. Even patients are not immune.

Paey, a patient suffering from intractable pain, was unable to

obtain enough Percocet to relieve his pain, so he forged undated

prescription forms his doctor had given him to get what he needed to

relieve his misery. He refused to take a plea bargain when charged as he

maintained he was innocent. He never sold a pill; he paid for the

medication, and maintained he was being denied his right to pursue a

pain-free life. So he received a 25-year sentence for pleading not

guilty. He is now in jail, in a wheelchair, and on a morphine pump.

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