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Understanding Pain: The Challenge of Self-Reporting

This chapter explores the intricacies of self-reporting pain scales, emphasizing individual variations in pain perception, particularly among children and the elderly. It also discusses the development of the Wong-Baker FACES scale and the collaborative efforts to create a child-friendly method for assessing pain in emergencies.

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