Pain scales are weird. "What's your pain level?" "What scale? Mankowski, Verbal Descriptor, Activity Tolerance, Wong-Baker Facial Grimace...?" "Oh, whatever you usually use ( Read more... )

I remember my best friend, my guide and my mentor. Decades after his second tour of duty in Viet Nam, he was diagnosed with an aggressive liver cancer. He spent much of his second tour working with chemicals that are know carcinogens, particularly targeting the liver. Over the years, the MSDS has been changed, slowly, insidiously, carefully ( Read more... )