Transcript excerpt of a conversational speaker (a clinician) who treats chronic pain and criticizes the medical system’s handling of pain. The speaker references the Netflix documentary "The Pharmacist," claims Purdue Pharmacy promoted treating pain as a vital sign and encouraged widespread oxycodone (OxyContin) prescribing, and frames this as contributing to patient addiction and systemic failure.
So what kind of things are you doing? Yeah, so, like, I treat a lot of chronic pain. And, you know, the problem with traditional chronic pain is, like, I mean, the whole system's broken, right? Like, I mean, I don't know if you've heard of that documentary about, like, the whole Purdue Pharmacy and, like, how they got people hooked on oxycodone content and, like, all this stuff. What documentary is that? It's really good one. It's called the Pharmacist. It's on Netflix, highly recommended. But it's basically about this company called Purdue Pharmacy. And they essentially tricked, more or less, but doctors aren't children, so I don't know if you can say they were tricked, but let's just say they tricked doctors to believe that pain was a vital sign, like a six vital sign, and that they had to treat pain using pain meds. And so essentially, whenever anyone had a pain more than like, 5, 6 out of 10, they would be like, here, take some ossyontin, no problem.
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