Anesthesiologist here. Pain sucks. It’s notoriously hard to treat. Hard to measure. And most of our treatments for it have real, often life threatening, side ef

Anesthesiologist here. Pain sucks. It’s notoriously hard to treat. Hard to measure. And most of our treatments for it have real, often life threatening, side effects. I get no greater pleasure as a doctor as to when I get someone painfree. Luckily I have some tools, like nerve blocks, which help in certain cases but even that’s limited. Pain just sucks.