Maybe the people who devise these things should take advice from someone who deals with it every day.
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Pain scales are useless given their wholly subjective basis. This is supposed to be scientific allopathic medicine and not some chirofraud. One only hopes that the clinicians on here don’t use the provided subjective and self-serving history of purported “onset of subjective symptoms” as a means of determining causation for anything besides litigation neurosis.
I dont agree with his pain scale at all. Some people are just programmed to answer the question “How are you” with a “Just fine”. I had an ER doc ask me that exact question, and when I answered “Fine” he replied “Well you dont look fine to me” And I wasn’t, I had just been in a MVA, but according to Scalpel I would have been.
As for his number 8, some people just don’t say “FUCK”, no matter how much they hurt.
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