Well, I suppose in Germany they also have a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability to take off while feeling this pain and drinking tea. When that's the case in the U.S., let's revisit this. Till then, let's hold off on the moral judgements when the reality is some of us literally have to go back the same day to work as the surgery. I've only taken pain killers once for a bad dental abscess that my dentist was too dumb to see on an x-ray a couple of hours before I could no longer chew. That was on a Friday and if I hadn't had pain killers from previous surgeries, I'd have been in agony. I don't think it's up to any prissy ass doctor to tell me, or anyone else, when I should feel pain or not and whether I will need pain killers or not. As the very least, I think we've established that people have different pain thresholds and a doctor should know this before even entering medical school.
> Well, I suppose in Germany they also have a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability to take off while feeling this pain and drinking tea.
No, we don't have "a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability". We have as many days or weeks as it takes. In many companies, you don't even need a doctor's notice for the first three days.
