Pain is one of medicine\'s greatest mysteries.
Many scientists, philosophers, and laypeople imagine pain to operate. "And strangely, I didn\'t feel any pain." How can this be? We\'re taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it.
When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor.
Pain is one of medicine\'s greatest mysteries