What Does a Pain Score Mean to Doctors and Patients?
October 29, 2026
October 29, 2026
LA JOLLA, California, Oct. 29 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news:
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What Does a Pain Score Mean to Doctors and Patients?
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Sociology PhD candidate Tannistha Sarkar explores how people communicate pain--and how injury can reshape identity, risk and hope
Patients in hospitals and doctors' offices are routinely asked to rate their pain on a scale from zero to 10. But what does that numb . . .
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What Does a Pain Score Mean to Doctors and Patients?
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Sociology PhD candidate Tannistha Sarkar explores how people communicate pain--and how injury can reshape identity, risk and hope
Patients in hospitals and doctors' offices are routinely asked to rate their pain on a scale from zero to 10. But what does that numb . . .