http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/useful-pain-scale.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81420 Anonymous Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/a-useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81420 As for his number 8, some people just don't say "FUCK", no matter how much they hurt. As for his number 8, some people just don’t say “FUCK”, no matter how much they hurt.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81414 Anonymous Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/a-useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81414 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. 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.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81406 Anonymous Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/a-useful-pain-scale.html#comment-81406 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. 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.

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