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Originally Posted by Chirley
I just don't see the point of having pain if you don't need to have it.
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I agree. A medical team that does not tend to a patient's pain is treating the disease, not the patient.
I also want to point out that it's more than just a comfort issue. My wife's hematologist told us that they got a much better sample when my wife was sufficiently sedated. Perhaps it was from clenched muscles or slight movement, but whatever the reason the biopsy didn't produce as good a sample on the occasions when she had only very light anesthesia.