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Someone is hurt pretty bad, yet still conscious. They need medical help, likely need surgery. They're getting ready for a major operation, but they order the doctor not to use pain killers, let alone major anesthesia. Sure, they know they're in serious pain and need to be treated - but for these folks, whatever the reason, [[Major Injury Underreaction|pain isn't much of a problem]] -- to the point that they may outright say, '''"Screw the Pain Medication!"'''
This trope is often used to show one of many things: the patient is a badass [[Made of Iron]]; they simply [[Feel No Pain|don't feel any pain]]; or, in some cases, pain killers are in short supply, and they want them saved for someone who ''really'' needs them. [[Macho Masochism|Maybe ego -- or the need to look tough for someone -- won't let them.]] Or maybe there are downsides to taking the meds that are worse than what the pain will entail. It's often seen when a character engages in [[Self-Stitching]], where such medication is either rare or not present. This
See also [[Macho Masochism]].
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Real Person Fic]] ''[[Just Taken]]'', [[Spice Girls|Melanie]] strictly requests that she isn't given pain medication after she is severely injured in a fight, which included getting ran over by a car. She even woke up during the middle of emergency surgery, which she just [[Shrug Take|
* In ''[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1535231 Spice Fortress Series]'', none of the women are given any medicine, even during surgery, yet seem [[Major Injury Underreaction|not to care]].
* Though understanding why she had to be on them, Emma wants the doctors to either reduce or stop giving her medication when she got out of a coma in ''[[Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'', as they were just making her very sick, even worse than being in a coma.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* During [[World War II]], Colonel von Stauffenberg refused to take morphine, out of fear of developing an addiction to the stuff.
* According to ''I'll Take Your Questions Now'', a 2021 tell-all book by former [[Donald
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