It's amazing how quickly a doctor transforms into a fucking cop the exact moment discussion of painkillers comes up. That's the instant all pretense of treating/diagnosing your condition flies out the window. Instead they'll furiously conjure up bullshit excuses to invalidate your pain, call you a hypochondriac, or treat you like a lying drug addict. Or, as in this case, "protect" a hypothetical fetus.
The war on opioids is wonderful. It pumps everyone full of easy to access drugs, then everyone tsks tsks them, and now asking for the drug is taboo, and now everyone is snorting fent off the bus rail.
It's amazing how quickly a doctor transforms into a fucking cop the exact moment discussion of painkillers comes up. That's the instant all pretense of treating/diagnosing your condition flies out the window. Instead they'll furiously conjure up bullshit excuses to invalidate your pain, call you a hypochondriac, or treat you like a lying drug addict. Or, as in this case, "protect" a hypothetical fetus.
Seriously, I had oral surgery as a teenager and they gave me fucking tylenol when I couldn't eat solid food for over a week
The war on opioids is wonderful. It pumps everyone full of easy to access drugs, then everyone tsks tsks them, and now asking for the drug is taboo, and now everyone is snorting fent off the bus rail.