Why it's so hard for doctors to understand your pain
- Written by Karen Sibert, Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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We’re all human beings, but we’re not all alike.
Each person experiences pain differently, from an emotional perspective as well as a physical one, and responds to pain differently. That means that physicians like myself need to evaluate patients on an individual basis and find the...
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