{"id":1184,"date":"2010-03-25T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bililite.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:50:14","slug":"a-real-pain-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/a-real-pain-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"A real pain scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually don't blog about medical stuff here, but <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/\">Allie Brosh<\/a>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html\">comments<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjbhealth.org\/documents\/Pain%20Scale.pdf\">Wong-Baker pain scale<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html\">are perfectly on-target<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jointcommission.org\/\">Joint Commission<\/a> accredits health care organizations and comes up with intrusive, well-intended but largely pointless standards that the rest of us have to uphold. A sort of \"unfounded mandate.\" One of these is the requirement that we document pain levels in every patient on a scale of one to ten. For pediatric patients, we have this \"FACES\" scale that starts from a big smile and doesn't even get to a frown until number six. I like Allie's much better.<\/p>\r\n<p>And her comment about not eating red food when you're sick is absolutely right. Never give your kid red popsicles when they've got a stomach bug; you'll just rush into the ER worried that they're throwing up blood.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I usually don't blog about medical stuff here, but Allie Brosh's comments about the Wong-Baker pain scale are perfectly on-target. The Joint Commission accredits health care organizations and comes up with intrusive, well-intended but largely pointless standards that the rest of us have to uphold. A sort of \"unfounded mandate.\" One of these is the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}