Imagine feeling like you have glass shards running through your blood, and imagine your doctors don鈥檛 believe how much pain you鈥檙e in.
Then, imagine you鈥檙e in a different body, incapable of feeling any pain at all.
Then, in body number three, you inflict pain on yourself so you can rate it. For science.
Pain is a mystery in so many ways, but the way we evaluate it, make sense of it, and how we recognize it in other people, can change how we understand it.
Today: From sickle cell, to CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain), to the Schmidt Pain Index, hear three snapshots of pain.
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GUESTS:
- Amy Mason-Cooley is a sickle cell patient and founder of 鈥溾��, a group that brings together sickle cell patients and their friends and families, doctors, and advocates
- is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and the Director of Clinical Research at George Washington University. His team studied
- Steve Pete is a Kelso, Washington resident who lives with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, or, C.I.P.
- Dr. Justin Schmidt is an entomologist and author of . He is also the creator of the
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
