As a person in chronic pain, I’ve been asked approximately one zillion times by healthcare providers of all kinds to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10, and that worsens my pain.

Nearly a dozen illegal immigrants were hurt over the weekend while trying to scale a border wall that separates California and Mexico. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says it took ten people ...

The concept of reducing these shades of pain to a single number dates to the 1970s. But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of what was called a “pain revolution” in the ’90s ...