A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he would approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
The deal overseen by US bankruptcy judge Sean Lane would require some of the multibillionaire members of the semi-reclusive Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7bn and give up ownership of the Connecticut-based firm.
The new agreement replaces one the US supreme court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of the family against future lawsuits. The judge said he would explain his decision in a hearing on Tuesday.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a more heartless and unempathetic reply in my whole life.
Your post, and the linked article, boiled down, basically all say that doctors should ignore pain and patients who are in pain should just suck it up and not think about it.
I’m very glad that medical science doesn’t treat patients in such a cold and uncaring manner. By this logic, there’s no reason to bother with anesthetic during or after surgery, because ‘pain is part of life’. There’s no reason to do joint replacements, because ‘pain is part of life’ and if the person can’t walk more than 10’ without pain too fucking bad for them.
Perhaps someday there will be an objective way to measure pain- some scanner that can read the signals going up the spinal cord or can read activations of nerve endings. But until then, this is what we’ve got.
I encourage you to take a serious look in the mirror and think about what kind of person you want to be. Because right now you’re someone that looks at a fellow human who is suffering and says ‘too bad, we shouldn’t lift a finger to help them’.