I spent 27 years as an ER doctor. Canada, Japan, and the USA. There ARE cultural differences in response to pain. In my experience, the greatest response to pain is seen in American Blacks and Hispanics, the least in Native Canadians - and it's learned early. Let me give you just one typical example from my experience:
Native Canadian boy age 2 cuts his forearm, needs stitches. Any other culture, I'd have had a nurse hold him down for the procedure, because if he were White, Black, or Hispanic he'd cry and struggle. Not that Native boy. He held still, face showing no emotion throughout the whole procedure. NEVER seen that in any other culture.
I suspect that the Inuit show the least response of all, but I only treated a handful so can't say for sure.
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the effects of ignoring reality" - Fred Reed.
I shook the hand of an old NYC Jewish left-winger who had hung out with Trotsky in Mexico and had photos to prove it.
Which was just as well because after Mexico he joined the Spanish Revolution and was picked up as soon as he crossed the border and about to be shot as a spy.
Not knowing the side or faction of his would-be executioners he took a chance and pulled out the Sacred Photograph and his captors went apeshit and carried on their shoulders back to their squalid camp.
The guy was fearless, always looking for worthy cause to fight for.
I spent 27 years as an ER doctor. Canada, Japan, and the USA. There ARE cultural differences in response to pain. In my experience, the greatest response to pain is seen in American Blacks and Hispanics, the least in Native Canadians - and it's learned early. Let me give you just one typical example from my experience:
Native Canadian boy age 2 cuts his forearm, needs stitches. Any other culture, I'd have had a nurse hold him down for the procedure, because if he were White, Black, or Hispanic he'd cry and struggle. Not that Native boy. He held still, face showing no emotion throughout the whole procedure. NEVER seen that in any other culture.
I suspect that the Inuit show the least response of all, but I only treated a handful so can't say for sure.
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the effects of ignoring reality" - Fred Reed.
I shook the hand of an old NYC Jewish left-winger who had hung out with Trotsky in Mexico and had photos to prove it.
Which was just as well because after Mexico he joined the Spanish Revolution and was picked up as soon as he crossed the border and about to be shot as a spy.
Not knowing the side or faction of his would-be executioners he took a chance and pulled out the Sacred Photograph and his captors went apeshit and carried on their shoulders back to their squalid camp.
The guy was fearless, always looking for worthy cause to fight for.
"The last such review is a nursing textbook, which some also Jewish woman on Twitter complains about." Hilariously predictable
Wonderful article. Reposted
That was fascinating!