{"id":336,"date":"2008-04-11T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2008-04-11T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:16:41","slug":"pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my kid<\/p>\n

Some time in the last year or two, I read about a study showing that men tend to report less pain when there’s a woman in the room. Not that they feel less pain, but that they keep a stiff upper lip for the female nurses. When it’s just guys, they admit that it really hurts.<\/p>\n

If this is backed up by further study, it might help healthcare professionals treat pain with more accuracy. They’ll know that this phenomenon occurs and they’ll allow for it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I was reading a news story sent in from front lines WW II by A.J. Liebling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He wrote about a French doctor, who said that the men bore the pain better if the nurses were watching:<\/p>\n

“Since we have so little anesthesia … we rely on vanity.”<\/p>\n

In other words, people in the field already knew about all this long before researchers made a Ph.D. dissertation out of it. And if they knew about it in WW II, my guess is that they knew about it when the first caveman took a club to his neighbor’s head.<\/p>\n

[I’m not sure we know whether grinning-and-bearing helps or hinders the healing process. That’s a question for another day. But I’m sure that minimizing the screaming was better for the other solders’ morale.]<\/p>\n

I’m reminded of two things:<\/p>\n

1. Riding my bicycle to work, I had to stop suddenly as a gaggle of schoolchildren were being herded across the street in front of me. I went straight over my handlebars and rolled to the feet of the terrified children.<\/p>\n

Had no one been around, I would have lay in my misery for a bit. I might have even writhed. Yes, I’d go as far as to say that I would have writhed. Instead, I jumped up, smiled at the kids, readjusted the handlebars, and rode on.<\/p>\n

2. This<\/a>. How would he have reacted if he were alone in the room?<\/p>\n

[By the way, the little girl in the picture is my daughter, and the only pain she was in was not wanting to nap at nap time.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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