Like Echoes says, lots of people intellectualize their problems; anyone that is trying to get away without having to feel the pain? A problem "out there" or, as sunrise says, rationalized is easier to have than one that hits you emotionally, especially if you feel helpless about it which I think lots of addicts do but don't want to admit.

Why do you care what some obnoxious person in chat said? If the pain doctors have that policy then I don't know that it matters what actually happened, may have happened or what? There's no way they can know for sure since they're not there, etc. Did you ask the doctor if he knew of any other pain docs/clinics that you could start with that might treat you now?