Major surgery to pin his legs back together

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John wakes up in a hospital to find that he had been in an accident that required major surgery to pin his legs back together. He is told that he has a patient controlled analgesia pump with morphine, which he recognizes as a pure opiate agonist. Is he likely to be able to achieve good pain control?

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