REVISED HOSPITAL CHART HAS PATIENTS RATE PAIN ON SCALE FROM 0 TO WATCHING THE VIEW

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Revised Hospital Chart Has Patients Rate Pain On Scale From Zero To Watching 'The View'

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Apr 22, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

 

U.S. — The American Medical Association has officially added "The View" to its pain scale to help patients better understand what is meant by the term "worst pain possible."

 

"In that case, I guess my pain is a nine," said trauma patient Bill Reynolds, whose femur was currently lodged in his own spleen. "Please change the channel."

 

With "The View" as a comparison, the pain rating of horrific injuries has fallen dramatically. "Sure, my skull is shattered - but that seems about half as bad as watching 'The View', so I'll go with a five," said car wreck survivor Glenn Higgins. "In retrospect, I really oversold how bad it hurt when my arm got caught in that wood-chipper. That was more like an eight."

 

For years, frustrated clinicians have dealt with errant public understanding of what true, ten-out-of-ten pain feels like. "If you aren't willing to gouge your own eyes out to make the pain stop, it's not a ten," said emergency physician Dr. Kim Bradford. "It's hard to communicate to patients what we mean by that kind of agony, other than watching 'The View'. It's been a really helpful update to our pain scale."

 

At publishing time, the AMA was considering changing the number nine slot to "listening to Kamala Harris laugh".

 

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