“On a scale from one to ten, how would you rate your pain?” is the standard question doctors ask to assess pain. The problem is that pain tolerances vary, and one person’s “three” may be someone else’s “eight.” Adding descriptions to numbers, such as labeling ten as “the worst pain you’ve ever experienced,” merely introduces another subjective measure. …
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