ER docs have, I think, been trained or conditioned to resist giving pain meds to people. I broke my foot about 6 years ago - badly. Lisfranc fracture, which is

ER docs have, I think, been trained or conditioned to resist giving pain meds to people. I broke my foot about 6 years ago - badly. Lisfranc fracture, which is most common in football players (and is a career ending injury typically). I went to the ER in blinding pain, quite nearly passed out from that pain in the waiting room. They gave me a morphine injection, which helped a great deal while they did X rays. The doctor (mis-)diagnosed me with a severe sprain and tried to send me home without meds. I asked for some, and was reluctantly given a prescription for Tylenol w/codeine. I've heard similar stories from other people. As a contrast, any time I've had even the most simple dental or other procedure, the doctors give me a prescription for pain meds without me asking for them (and in many cases not really needing them). So this seems to be specific to ER docs. I suspect it's a reaction to having to deal with people who are drug-seeking, but I don't really know for sure.