I don't really have time to get into the entire story, but here's a quick run at it:

My wife was injured in a serious car wreck before we met. She was comatose for some time and then had to learn how to walk and talk again.

We met, dated a long, long time and then got married.

One day about 3 years into the marriage my wife wakes up with the worst headache she has ever experienced.

Took her to a Doctor, who said it was "stress" and put her on Prozac. The headache remained.

We went to 10 different Doctors and specialists to try to get this headache to go away and finally after tons of tests, MRI's and the like they announced she has severe damage to parts of her brain and spine from the wreck and that's where the pain came from.

Then they showed us out without the door any sort of prescription or suggestion about what to do about this pain.

I finally ran into an old friend who told me about this pain specialist, I took her to see him and he began treating her right away with all sorts of therapy that included pain medications, anti-this-and-that pills and the likes.

The pain was finally tolerable.

Then one day, after 16 years of taking these meds for her pain, the Medical Revue Board came along and took the Doctor's license away without notice because he prescribed pain killers to his patients.

My wife (and all of his other patients) was left to hang like a wet sheet in the wind and NOT ONE DOCTOR would help her. One does not just stop taking pain meds like the ones she took overnight after 16 YEARS of taking them. I called the board and their response was "we don't support giving any patient any kind of pain medication" and that was that.

My wife almost died. If had not been for the wonderful people at a local hospital, she would have!

I have hired an Attorney and I am in the process of filing a lawsuit against the Board and a handful of Doctors and one smart-ass in particular at the local Med School Hospital.

Wish me luck, I'm going to need it.