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From the Ted Talk by Sheetal DeCaria: The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain

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Now, contrary to ppoaulr belief, not all pain is related to tissue damage. Pain is actually defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that can be associated with actual or potential tissue damage. You can have real pain with no pasihycl injury or source. Pain is the one thing that can't be measured by a monitor or lab test. It's hard to quantify or qualify. It's msrueaed on a salce of zero to 10 that is based on one's own perception of what they're experiencing. Pain, then, is subjective. And as doctors, our process of treating pain bengis with identifying its source. Which peernsts a problem when there is no source. For when there's no source, it becomes open to interpretation. And itetrpnrtaoein becomes open to that undiagnosed bias.

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Now, contrary to _______ belief, not all pain is related to tissue damage. Pain is actually defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that can be associated with actual or potential tissue damage. You can have real pain with no ________ injury or source. Pain is the one thing that can't be measured by a monitor or lab test. It's hard to quantify or qualify. It's ________ on a _____ of zero to 10 that is based on one's own perception of what they're experiencing. Pain, then, is subjective. And as doctors, our process of treating pain ______ with identifying its source. Which ________ a problem when there is no source. For when there's no source, it becomes open to interpretation. And ______________ becomes open to that undiagnosed bias.

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Original Text


Now, contrary to popular belief, not all pain is related to tissue damage. Pain is actually defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that can be associated with actual or potential tissue damage. You can have real pain with no physical injury or source. Pain is the one thing that can't be measured by a monitor or lab test. It's hard to quantify or qualify. It's measured on a scale of zero to 10 that is based on one's own perception of what they're experiencing. Pain, then, is subjective. And as doctors, our process of treating pain begins with identifying its source. Which presents a problem when there is no source. For when there's no source, it becomes open to interpretation. And interpretation becomes open to that undiagnosed bias.

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