Bedford Palmer II, Ph.D.
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To the medical professionals out there. Please stop asking folks to rate pain on a 10pt scale. It’s subjective and facilitates medical racism.

Instead, ask them to describe the pain. Ask about the qualities of pain.

Is it throbbing, shooting, aching, burning, etc. #ChronicPain
04:17 PM - Feb 18, 2023
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Jennifer Moore Baker
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Trying to quantify pain is difficult, because it depends on your personal experience. For a young healthy person that has never been injured, a skinned knee is the worst pain they have ever felt. For a senior that has had multiple surgeries, it's a much higher level. Pain is personal.
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04:34 PM - Feb 18, 2023
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Just Vicki
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exactly. I've had some truly horrific pain in the past, so a 5 for me may be someone else's 9. Sometimes I try to estimate how someone without a chronic pain condition might think of the pain and answer that way but it's still so arbitrary
08:02 PM - Aug 09, 2023
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