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This is where it gets tricky. Doctors and nurses are put in a situation where they're forced to believe a patient that claims that they're in pain. The patient could very well be exaggerating or straight up fabricating, but health care professionals are obligated to address the issue. Often times they try to exhaust their options before going to potent opiates (extra strength Tylenol, Bengay, Lidocaine patches, Voltaren, Tramadol, NSAIDs, Robaxin, etc.), but it's all situation-dependent. A fresh post-op patient most likely needs opiate pain medications to effectively control their pain, then there's the crowd that has "chronic pain syndrome" with no specified origin. When medical professionals have to take their complaints of pain as seriously as the person that just fractured their femur, it becomes very apparent why we can't have nice things.
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