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(Almost) Everybody Hurts: An Exploration of Pain

Imagine feeling like you have glass shards running through your blood, and imagine your doctors don’t believe how much pain you’re in.

Then, imagine you’re in a different body, incapable of feeling any pain at all.

Then, in body number three, you inflict pain on yourself so you can rate it. For science.

Pain is a mystery in so many ways, but the way we evaluate it, make sense of it, and how we recognize it in other people, can change how we understand it.

Today: From sickle cell, to CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain), to the Schmidt Pain Index, hear three snapshots of pain.

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GUESTS:

  • Amy Mason-Cooley is a sickle cell patient and founder of “”, a group that brings together sickle cell patients and their friends and families, doctors, and advocates
  • is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and the Director of Clinical Research at George Washington University. His team studied
  • Steve Pete is a Kelso, Washington resident who lives with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, or, C.I.P.
  • Dr. Justin Schmidt is an entomologist and author of . He is also the creator of the

Catie Talarski contributed to this show.

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