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The Doctors Who Believed Their Patients

by Fred Gardner

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For Tod Mikuriya and his colleagues.

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The Doctors Who Believed Their Patients

Have you heard of our law called Prop 215?
Passed by California voters just saying what we mean
Marijuana eases pain and grief
There's many a condition for which it brings relief

But the State could not wait to cover up its ears
Long-robed judges said the wording isn't clear
The cops and D.A.s held a council of war
In secret to dis-implement the new law

Put heat on the doctors that's the whole strategy
Said attorney general lungren then he flew off to DC
To meet with Cardinal Constantine and Rabbi Alan Lesh-
ner Reno and Shalala like a scene out of MacBeth

It was back in December, 1996
General McCaffrey announced the big fix
California doctor, your license is at risk
Big Janet and the neckless nun all tsk-tsk-tsk

What were their names, what were their names
The docs who believed their patients claims?
What were their names, tell me what were their names
The docs who stood up for the patients?

From up in Crescent City down to San Diego
Many a physician had to just say no
Unless you got cancer or AIDS better yet
A letter of approval could prove difficult to get

Paxil and Statins they are eager to prescribe
Viagra and estrogen dispensed like a bribe
The detail men offer them jaunts to here and there
And the board never questions their standard of care

But those brave physicians whose plain common sense
Leads to respect for anecdotal evidence
Get called Dr Feelgood like it was a bad thing
And made to feel fear every time the doorbell rings

They helped a lot of people in a wide range of pain
The data they've collected should not be in vain
Sabotage of research, when's it gonna stop?
The practice of medicine is not up to the cops

What were their names?…

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released April 16, 2014
words and music: Fred Gardner
Produced by Camilo Landau

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