Dr. Kathleen Foley worked with cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. There, she was also a mentor to Dr. Russell Portenoy. Foley began her medicine career in the 1970s, in a time when opiate use was extremely limited, and she became an advocate for using opiates to treat pain in the terminally ill. Eventually, she extended this philosophy to encompass more types of pain, asserting that opiates could be used to treat chronic pain, as well. Like Portenoy, Foley viewed pharmaceutical companies favorably.
Dr. Kathleen Foley Quotes in Dreamland
The Dreamland quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kathleen Foley or refer to Dr. Kathleen Foley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Purdue
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“We can get away from these silly elixirs and cocktails into tablets that people take once or twice a day, and we’re into a revolutionary field of pain management…It was the drug-delivery service that changed, not the drug, and with that the whole mentality, ‘Well now that we have this drug, we can treat pain.’ Really extraordinary.”
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Dr. Kathleen Foley Quotes in Dreamland
The Dreamland quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kathleen Foley or refer to Dr. Kathleen Foley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Purdue
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“We can get away from these silly elixirs and cocktails into tablets that people take once or twice a day, and we’re into a revolutionary field of pain management…It was the drug-delivery service that changed, not the drug, and with that the whole mentality, ‘Well now that we have this drug, we can treat pain.’ Really extraordinary.”
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