PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: War Doctor, Spasm, Thoracic Cavity

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Pain is a strong (the strongest?) motivator of behaviour. Pain importantly affects psychological health and well-being. The link between pain and injuries is very weak. Here is the most famous example with data. Published in 1956 by a famous war doctor, henry beecher. Data pertaining to pain levels and whether the patient in question requested narcotics: narcotics = opioid analgesics. What is being compared here is two problems: soldiers in battle with war wounds (top, civilians in the hospital with surgical wounds (bottom) Trauma to bones (e. g. , leg fractured in war vs. had a skiing accident) Intra-thoracic trauma (e. g. , gun shot wound in chest vs. car accident) In every case, the pain level is higher in the civilian surgical wound case. Intra-abdominal trauma (e. g. , a bayonet to the stomach vs. operation requiring a stomach incision: of the soldiers, only 32% said they would like morphine whereas in the hospital, 83% of civilians said that they would.

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