Submitted by super-sweet-cat t3_ylweru in askscience
runthereszombies t1_iv4a1cp wrote
No, pain is an entirely subjective experience that you can't really objectively measure considering every single person exoeriences it differently. What may be a minor annoyance to one person is excruciating in another.
In medicine, we often will ask how bad something is on a scale of 1 to 10, but thats a ballpark measurement. Most of the time we visually assess for signs of extreme pain. If you walk into someone's room and they're writhing around, or they're sitting completely dead still those are both alarming. If someone with sickle cell disease says something hurts I usually assume they're experiencing a super high level of pain because they hurt every day. So if they tell us they're in pain they're in A LOT of pain. I won't have that mindset in someone who has no morbid health conditions.
Overall just very situational.
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