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Official Court Transcript
Presiding Judge — The Honorable Clarence Darrow
Testimony of Dr. Hippocrates of Kos;
Plaintiff— Dr. Hippocrates, do you like coffee, tea or even breathing?
Defense — Objection! The claimant is threatening the witness!
Plaintiff — Objection? It is a simple question simply to determine if the good doctor if he enjoys life’s simpler pleasure. May I explain your Honor?
Judge — Humm… proceed cautiously sir…
Plaintiff — Understood Sir. The thing is, if the good doctor enjoys any one of these items and the courts deny him his guaranteed right to enjoy the pleasures pursuing happiness, then there will be consequences. First, if you deny Dr. Hippocrates either tea of coffee he has been drinking for many years, then the good doctor will experience various physical discomforts. Some of these include elevated blood pressure, severe headaches and even nervous tremors and cravings. These symptoms can even lead to death by heart attack or even stroke if the blood pressure is not controlled sufficiently.
Now breathing, like denial of pain medications for intractable pain, is very similar in that the body does require it in order to maintain normal functioning of the body similar to pain medications. If you deny the body of either, serious side effects will occur. Various organs within the body will start compensating in order to survive and protect the brain from a complete shutdown. With continued oxygen deprivation results in fainting, long-term loss of consciousness, coma, seizures, cessation of brain stem reflexes, and eventual brain death.
Denial of pain medications will lead to chronic cardiovascular stress, hyperglycemia which both predisposes to and worsens diabetes, splanchnic vasoconstriction leading to impaired digestive function and potentially to catastrophic consequence. Unrelieved pain can be accurately thought of as the “universal complicator” which worsens all coexisting medical or psychiatric problems through the stress mechanisms and by inducing cognitive and behavioral changes in the sufferer which can interfere with obtaining needed medical care. The risk of death by suicide is more than doubled in chronic pain patients, relative to national rates.*
Judge — Objection overruled…. I find the Claimant has proven his case and find the defendant guilty of crimes of medical malpractice…. Court Adjourned!!!
- Alex DeLuca, M.D., FASAM, MPH;Written testimony submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs regarding the “Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs” hearing; 2008–03–08.
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So i been denied care for my intractable pain diagnosis what can I do about it?