What does pain signify? A hypothesis concerning pain, the immune system and unconscious pain experience under general anesthesia.
Medical Hypotheses 2004 Yair Neuman
In this paper, I present a case-study that initiates a discussion about the meaning of pain. The case-study concerns a person who was under deep sedation during colonoscopy. The person did not experience pain from a first-person perspective, although pain was evident to the medical team from a second-person perspective. The divergence of pain perspectives raises an interesting quandary. If the...