Last week, I said that we Americans

are a spoiled people. We have things to do, people to see, places to go.

We do not have time to be brought down, slowed down, or even influenced

that dares to slow us or stop us from achieving all our goals and being

all we want to be. And, oh yeah, we also reach for drugs or alcohol or

sex or other potential addictions to relieve the pain of not having goals.

All that said, sadly, I will

add that I have known individuals who have committed suicide because they

could not tolerate pain. Yet, I do not personally know of a single such

person whose physical pain was not exacerbated (that means made worse),

or perhaps even caused by, emotional pain.

I also have known physicians

who have, themselves, developed drug addiction habits over the years.

And I'm wondering, today, if some doctors are sicker than their patients.

Is the healer even more caught

up in keeping up? Is he or she more driven, more stressed, more exhausted,

more inclined to look for the easy, fast, most direct way to perform well.

Their patients come looking

for (demanding?) quick fixes. To seek in-depth counseling is not an option.

To change lifestyles requires too much effort. To find time for better

physical conditioning is not possible. To make better food choices is

not convenient. To develop meaningful, heartfelt relationships...well,

that may be out of the question, as it would require the most time and

effort of all.

Nobody has time to be sick

or in pain. Perhaps we have all (doctors and patients alike) been blindsided.

Just slipped up on and slapped silly by illegal and legal drug trade in

America.

Legal pain pills are the biggest

crock of stinking b.s. ever to have been put out before the American public,

and we have all been so HAD that we can't even smell the stench anymore.

Oh, and we don't want to smell

it. Just like we don't want to feel or don't have time to feel -- and

are not inclined to take the hard way or the high road anymore.

And why should we? Legal drug

manufacturing and marketing, one of the largest moneymaking industries

ever to hit Wall Street, offers us relief from the hard and high road!

Fast food, fast promises, fast

living, fast destruction. We truly have been had.

Does this mean the unhealed

healer, who may be the most "had" of all, cannot help those

who come to him for assistance? Or, does his own present pain or struggle

lay the groundwork for greater capability and skill? It may be that the

doctors have had enough..., and are on the verge of finding ways to

treat the WHOLE patient better than ever before.

Nobody is more caught between

rocks and hard places today than are medical doctors, regarding the issue

of pain control (as well as far too many other issues!). They are damned

if they do and damned if they don't. If they don't treat pain, somebody

is going to sue them for not doing so. If they do treat pain, somebody

else is going to sue because a mom or dad or child or mate died from overdosage

or became addicted.

Consider this. Jane Doe breaks

a leg. The doctor prescribes a pill for pain. She discovers that the pill

dulls other pain as well. John Smith has recurrent headaches. His doctor

prescribes a pill for the pain. John discovers the pain behind the pain

is also masked by the pill. Mary Jones develops systemic muscle pain,

can't sleep at night, and can't relax. She gets pain pills, sleeping pills,

antidepressants, anti anxiety drugs... oh, yeah, folks, it happens.

Does Jane, John or Mary look

inward at their hearts or outward at their lifestyles for real, but very

time-consuming answers? Why should they, when they can look toward a prescription

writing machine who dances fast to the music that the drug industry plays?

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