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Do the Baby Boomers Know About this Yet?
- a famous Doonsbury cartoon by Gary Trudeau

GIF image of a famous Doonsbury cartoon by Gary Trudeau, in which a physician explains why the suffering patient cannot be prescribed sufficient  morphine to relieve her pain:  "[Your] dear friend has the misfortune of dying after 1914, which was the last time physicians had full discretion in prescribing narcotics." The doctor continues in a later panel, "It's the main reason why up to 40% of cancer patients in nursing homes are in daily pain." 
 
Originally posted: 1/4/2005; [www.doctordeluca.com/image/Cartoons/WhyPtsInPain-doonsbury.htm].
Also available from: [www.anapsid.org/cnd/images/doonsburypain.gif]

Thanks, for making this available, to Siobhan Reynolds, family member of a chronic pain patient, and President of the Pain Relief Network (PRN)
 

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