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Doc can I get so dilaudid? I stubbed my toe.. just say yes.. lol

One of your best episodes ever, so thank you for doing it. Handled with just the right amount of serious and dick jokes. I'm about to dump a giant load of whatever on you. Shit part for me is I am a surgeon ( I'm TFred and I bother you sometimes on your Zoom live things) and I prescribe opiates often because NOT doing so is horribly inhumane. I can't cut someone open, rearrange their guts, amputate limbs, take care of car-crash victims, etc. without providing pain control afterwards, and while we do use IV and oral NSAIDs, acetaminophen, and adjuncts like muscle relaxers and nerve blocks, we often have to use some narcotics. Yes, there's a risk people get addicted to them, but it's really not all that common given how many scripts we write. We have a tracking system that lets us look up patients instantly and find out how many Schedule 2/3 drugs they're getting as well, and that may help guide how much or what we give, and show us if someone is doctor-shopping. But I've seen true drug-seekers stealing other's identities, make up stories about how their pills got lost (they were stolen out of the car, the dog ate them, they fell in the lake while I was fishing, etc), and when someone does that, I stop prescribing and will even fire them from my practice. It sounds shitty, but I have my license (which I spent 9 years to earn) on the line every time I prescribe, and I'm not going to risk it for some random asshole. The real solution, if there is one, is recognizing that addictions (to drugs, sex, video games, food, sports, anime porn, puffy nipples, etc.) is one disease that presents with different faces. But it's the same monster, and it needs to be treated as a disease, not a moral failing. Punishing addicts socially and criminally does nothing--that's what both your guests said, paraphrasing, "You can't do it for someone else, you have to do it for yourself." So, you can't break the habit because the law says you have to--and we, as a society, should be treating it the way we now treat depression, and anxiety, and other common mental health issues that used to get people locked up in asylums or given lobotomies. Countries in Europe have already adopted far healthier models, by legalizing harmless stuff (let's be real--as a surgeon, I don't care if you use weed. I do get bent the fuck out of shape if you smoke cigarettes, because nicotine fucks with my surgery so FUCKING STOP SMOKING. Also booze in large enough quantities to where your liver stops working and you will bleed to death if you get a haircut is problematic when you need your hernia fixed). We should be following their example instead of trying to be fucking Puritans and DARE warriors long after we know it didn't fucking work. Sorry for the extremely long post, but I had to express this.

Molly Jane Cyr

I once fingered my ol lady, after I had cut and ate a ghost pepper! At first she was screaming and I was being super cocky thinking I was doing a fantastic job, turns out it was just the ghost pepper on my fingers! 🤣

Fupajuice666

🤣🤣🤣

Fupajuice666

Oh man, this episode was fucking brilliant👌🏻