Working in a Rehab Medicine rotation (which I desperately tried to cancel) with a senior physiatrist who seeks every opportunity to impart wisdom to this young soul.
We are talking about pain management in rehab medicine and how it is so difficult to assess pain because of its subjective nature. He says, "pain is like being sexually assualted. I might just have just looked at you and you may feel uncomfortable and decide to complain against me whereas somebody else won't even consider it twice. That is how pain is. It is very difficult to get an estimate of how much pain your patient feels. Even if you don't believe them, you have to go by what they say."
Mind blown!
We are talking about pain management in rehab medicine and how it is so difficult to assess pain because of its subjective nature. He says, "pain is like being sexually assualted. I might just have just looked at you and you may feel uncomfortable and decide to complain against me whereas somebody else won't even consider it twice. That is how pain is. It is very difficult to get an estimate of how much pain your patient feels. Even if you don't believe them, you have to go by what they say."
Mind blown!
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