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Re:The psychiatric drug crisis by beagle3 on Sunday September 08, 2013 @03:27PM (#6349922)
There's a way to objectively measure subjective pain. At least, these guys[1] claimed to have done it, and i've been told by someone who examined them as part of investment due-diligence, that it actually works (better than the cartoon face scale, anyway)

[1] http://www.medasense.com/

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Re:The psychiatric drug crisis by carbocation on Sunday September 08, 2013 @08:32PM (#6351200)
In clinical medicine, "we cannot measure pain" is true, or at least "at [this institution], we cannot measure pain" is true, where [this institution] is every institution I've ever seen.

What's happening in the research world takes time to translate into practice, especially if it's not been validated in a large multi-center trial.

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