Exactly. Pain evolved as a guide to improve survival but it also can also create deadly stress when it gives chronic, false positives. If suffering is life-al

Exactly. Pain evolved as a guide to improve survival but it also can also create deadly stress when it gives chronic, false positives. If suffering is life-altering, it's on the patient or their advocate/s to keep on their medical providers to eliminate causes and manage pain, hopefully without causing more problems like addiction or surgery complications. Looking at it from the doctor's viewpoint: Does this patient complain a lot? Is this complaint important? Hard to answer, expensive to find out with current technology and discoverability of relevant knowledge, techniques and advances is an everyday battle that hasn't been addressed consistently. Some patients, like my grandmother, avoided complaining to not seem "fussing" when she dismissed heart disease as indigestion, ultimately had to have a quintuple bypass and coded three times in the OR. Slowly, she came back but it gave her back more energy than the previous decade and she's still alive.