séimí mac liam

Our loggers have taken just as many stands as your loggers. The assisted
suicide law has had pretty much had the opposite effect intended. In the
good old days, terminal patients would be sent home with sufficient
morphine to "keep them out of pain", with instructions from the doc to do
so. It was called snowing the patient. Now the state places such tight
scrutiny on the prescribing practices of physicians that often people not
terminal have trouble getting needed pain relief. The docs are afraid to
get a record going of over prescribing without filling out the necessary
forms required by the assisted suicide laws. All in all a failed
experiment, IMV.

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Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99