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01-10-2017 | Gendered Innovations in Orthopaedic Science

Gendered Innovations in Orthopaedic Science: 11 Out of 10 on the Pain Scale: Acknowledging My Own Gender Biases

Author: Alexandra E. Page, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 10/2017

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I suspect a number of orthopaedic surgeons like myself develop an internal benchmark against which we note the subjective pain of a patient. An arthritic knee should hurt this much, a femur fracture should hurt THIS much. Enter the pain scale. As a clinician, I try to avoid prejudicing my assessment of a new patient. But I cringe when I see “11” on the 10-point scale. …

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Title: Gendered Innovations in Orthopaedic Science: 11 Out of 10 on the Pain Scale: Acknowledging My Own Gender Biases
Author: Alexandra E. Page, MD
Publication date: 01-10-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 10/2017
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-017-5455-x

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