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EShipp@tennet.com (Eleanor Shipp) writes:


>What do you mean we?.. My experience with cancer sufferers is that the pain 
>control is very limited and ultimately unsuccessful, leaving the patient in 
>equal agony or some sort of morphia induced coma.

Did you see the 7:30 Report the night before the Andrews Bill vote ?
The old dude with terminal cancer interviewed seemed to tell a radically
different story Eleanor. Jan, who works in the field, also seems to
tell a different story.

>IMHO, part of the problem is the refusal of the medical profession to admit 
that 

>a. They can do nothing to cure a disease
>b. They can do little to prevent suffering

I can tell you from personal experience that (b) is total bulls**t.
Kym's stats software may have noticed a slight dip in my posting
frequency slightly before the Andrews vote. After undergoing 3 hours
of microsurgery I found pethadine 100% effective in managing my pain
until nature set to work on the damage. Contrary to what some in this
group would have us believe I was not drugged into a zombie, but I assure
you I would not have been able to endure sitting up to type without
chemical assistance. I doubt anyone out there in Internetland noticed
any difference. (You probably think I post _all_ my articles on drugs ;-)

David Moss,
personal opinion only.