This is so true. I was forced to have a CT scan simply because I hadn't had one in 6 months to prove that I needed another injection that was just approved 4 months earlier (if I needed it then why put me through the extra radiation just to know that if anything it had gotten worse ).
As somebody mentioned earlier about kidney stones I was prescribed more pain meds for those then I was for a shattered leg.
I hate taking meds but I'm 44 and if I don't have one in the morning I tend to walk like Jim does. I can live without the pain meds but I can't have any type of a life as I'd be in bed all day.
I do wish Jim the best and for a healthy recovery, but just because a medicine was administered doesn't mean that it was needed. I was not there so I do not know but simply because someone has a past doesn't meant its the same in the present or future.