Dax Shepard

I find myself landing in the middle because I feel like as a provider, you bet your ass it's my responsibility to assess my patient.

And I absolutely need to educate myself about my patient's history.

That is my job.

My oath is to do no harm.

Every doctor takes that oath.

And I, having studied pain for like 35 years, I am doing harm if I am prescribing opioids to someone with a history of addiction.

Because what happened to you could happen to anyone.

It didn't happen to your dad and bless.

But why would I put you in that position?

If I'm a good doctor, I am trained to ask that question.

You don't have to be trained in addiction medicine to ask.

We also might lie to you.

That is 100% on you.

That's 0% on me.

But I did my job.

I asked you, do you have a history of addiction?

Am I putting you in harm's way by giving you this particular medication?

Because as a doctor, a trained MD knows, there are alternative painkillers out there.

It doesn't have to be the most addictive one.

So someone could have given you a friendlier, less dangerous drug and could have saved you the fuckery that you found yourself in.