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07.08.2017 | Gendered Innovations in Orthopaedic Science
Gendered Innovations in Orthopaedic Science: 11 Out of 10 on the Pain Scale: Acknowledging My Own Gender Biases
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Alexandra E. Page, MD
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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 10/2017
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I suspect a number of orthopaedic surgeons like myself develop an internal benchmark against which we note the subjective pain of a patient. An arthritic knee should hurt this much, a femur fracture should hurt THIS much. Enter the pain scale. As a clinician, I try to avoid prejudicing my assessment of a new patient. But I cringe when I see “11” on the 10-point scale. …