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(Message started by: Lapsi_Harmaahapsi on Oct 16^th, 2002, 4:28am)

Title: pain-o-meter
Post by Lapsi_Harmaahapsi on Oct 16^th, 2002, 4:28am

All of us have had these thoughts..
wouldn't it be nice to be able to measure pain in an objective way? We'd finally get some respect/understanding from doctors/peers.
Wouldn't it be fun to give a person a sample how CH feels like? Especially to those docs.

Reading that hypothalamus-stuff from OUCH got me thinking that perhaps the measuring can be done fairly "soon". The way they can probe/scan brains nowadays is amazing! I can see the list, from "piece of cake" to "bad":
1. 1st degree burn
2. torn muscle
3. broken leg
4. giving birth
5. kip 8
That would be so cool.
Too bad that at the time we could actually "record" the pain and "inject" it in others we just might have a "cure" already.