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Chasing Life

Pain is a Four-Letter Word

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How do you treat a disease where the cause is unknown and each patient’s symptoms are unique? CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to pain expert Dr. Carmen Green about what causes chronic pain, how it can be treated, and which patients are more likely to get care. Plus, meet a man who feels no pain and a woman who figured out how to cope with hers. This episode originally aired in November 2021. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey there, it's Sanjay. You know, I've been thinking a lot about pain recently. Like love and

1:07.6

joy, pain is an integral part of the human experience.

1:11.7

At the beginning of this season, I talked with science writer and author Ed Yong

1:15.6

about pain being considered one of our senses.

1:19.5

And like any other sense, it's subjective.

1:22.9

It is more of an experience than a sensation.

1:26.6

The pain that you feel. That's what happens when

1:29.3

your brain processes the information from a type of neuron called a nosusceptor. A nosusceptor

1:35.3

detects potentially damaging sensations. Think a hand, touching a hot stove or a foot, stepping on a tack.

1:43.7

But it's a lot more than that. As a neurosurgeon,

1:46.6

I deal with pain a lot in my line of work. We often ask patients to rate their pain on a scale of

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