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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the article (I'm currently at work) but this is fascinating to me.

I'm a nurse and trained in the late 90s.  We were told constantly that "pain is the 5th vital sign" and we assessed our patient's pain every 4 hours.  I worked in oncology nursing and I remember how strongly this was drilled into our heads.  Not assessing a patient's pain (and addressing it by getting the doctor to write for a medication) was almost the worse sin a nurse could commit.  I worked at the oncology center at Hopkins from 1992-2002 and I personally sent hundreds (if not thousands) of cancer patients home with an oxycontin prescription.  We gave it out to everyone.  None of us were personally profiting from any of it--the prescriptions were written by interns and residents and the meds were dosed by nurses.  It was just the culture of the time.  [b]Untreated pain (especially in cancer patients) was tantamount to malpractice[/b] and no one questioned how we were treating it.  [/quote]

NP.  I think that has been the case up until maybe a year ago.  Or possibly two.  [/quote]

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