Pain isn’t an unhealthy condition & it won’t kill you.
Medicine isn’t supposed to eliminate pain entirely especially if it conflicts with medical treatment or promotes unhealthy dependence on painkillers.
Pain is definitely not a vital sign & those pain face scales & the like are propaganda brought to you by pharmaceutical lobbyists instead of hard medical science.
Americans have uncritically played into some strange ideas without asking where they came from.
We can’t cure migraines. We can’t cure cancer. We can’t cure back pain. We can’t cure a lot of stuff that causes recurring pain in people, for whom pain isn’t a warning but a useless life impediment.
The body is not a perfect machine, and we don’t understand or know how to fix most of the problems with it.
Pain isn’t an unhealthy condition & it won’t kill you. Medicine isn’t supposed to eliminate pain entirely especially if it conflicts with medical treatment or promotes unhealthy dependence on painkillers.
Pain is definitely not a vital sign & those pain face scales & the like are propaganda brought to you by pharmaceutical lobbyists instead of hard medical science. Americans have uncritically played into some strange ideas without asking where they came from.
You don’t suffer chronic pain, do you?
We can’t cure migraines. We can’t cure cancer. We can’t cure back pain. We can’t cure a lot of stuff that causes recurring pain in people, for whom pain isn’t a warning but a useless life impediment.
The body is not a perfect machine, and we don’t understand or know how to fix most of the problems with it.