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Doctors take on the state: championing patients’ right to pain treatment

Human Rights Watch researchers have interviewed thousands of victims of torture. When we began interviewing patients who had suffered illness with untreated severe pain, some aspects of their experiences were disturbingly similar. Both torture victims and patients who had suffered illness with untreated pain told us that all they had wanted was for the pain to stop. Many torture victims do or say anything that they think might stop the torture. Patients with untreated pain told us that they had contemplated suicide, told friends and relatives that they wanted to die and prayed for death (1). One patient with a painful tumour in his leg told us that he wanted doctors to amputate his limb to stop the pain. He said: 'The pain was so severe I felt like dying. I was very scared. I felt that it would be better to die than to have to bear this pain (2)'.