If you’ve ever been in the hospital recovering from a surgery, you know the health care providers will ask you to “rate” your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, so they can administer pain relief ...

Asking patients to rate their pain on a scale from zero to 10 is “a simple but baffling request,” Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, wrote in a July 2 opinion piece for KFF Health News. Dr. Rosenthal ...

Two of the Painimations. One is meant to represent a stabbing pain, and the other neuropathic pain. Doctors often ask patients to rank their pain on a scale of one to 10, and responses inform ...