Show 1178: Do We Need a Revolution in Managing Pain? (Archive)

Published: July 1, 2021, 11:49 p.m.

Pain is a difficult topic. To begin with, the experience of pain is completely subjective. There are no independent objective measures that doctors can use to assess a patient\u2019s pain. They have to take her word for it. Second, pain has a very significant emotional component that must be addressed along with any physical causes. [\u2026]