Is pain scale an objective tool to measure pain level. I’ve never thought so. How often it happens when a nurse asks a patient:

Do you have pain?

A little bit.

How would you rate your pain level on scale from 0 to 10?

Eight or nine.

In this case the majority of nurses do exactly as we are brainwashed to do: document 9 and offer pain medication. The majority of patients do not refuse a pain shot even though they would not ...