PAIN (opens in new tab)

At BMR, the first thing the doctors, nurses, and techs ask patients when they interview them is "Do you feel any pain?" And they want you to quantify it on a scale of 1-3-5 / small-medium-big. What is pain? Physical, mental? I tend to think of it rather as Sanskrit duḥkha (/ˈduːkə/ दुःख) than as […]