Doctor's Personal Choices

[Molasar]

never had cancer but had about eight pneumothorax, cardiac valve replacement 30 years ago, an arterial aneurysm in a leg that needed a bypass (and learning to walk again) and some other scary shit.
i can cope with all of that with decent analgesia, and doctors have finally realised that when your chest has been split open and they expect you to wake up in recovery and cough to clear your lungs, two paracetamol ain't going to do the business.
my latest chest drain hurt like a bitch and I was given IV morphine, codeine, and paracetamol which took the edge off, much better than writhing in agony as in years gone by.