Plot Bunny on pain
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ohsamOk, I'll give this little plot bunny tag doohickie a try.
I hear about interesting medical stuff from time to time and think of Supernatural, of course.
A doctor did a study between WWII soldiers and their civilian contemporaries with similar wounds and found they had very different pain responses. ""Extent of wound bears only a slight relationship, if any (often none at all), to the pain experienced."
"In a situation in which a wound has great advantage and means escape from overpowering anxiety and fear of death on the battlefield (war wounds terminating military service), extensive wounds are associated with comparatively little pain. In a situation in which the wound connotes disaster (major surgery in civil life), lesser wounds are associated with far more pain than in the former situation. The essential difference appears to be in the difference in anxiety level in the two cases, in the attitude of the patient, and in his reaction to his wound."
These quotes are from this JAMA article. You can read the full text of the article by clicking an option on the left of the screen.
The Bunny:
I wonder if wee/teen!Sam (the civilian) was ever injured at the same time (or at a later time to the same extent) as Dean or John (the soldiers) and had a LOT more pain than either of them.
I hear about interesting medical stuff from time to time and think of Supernatural, of course.
A doctor did a study between WWII soldiers and their civilian contemporaries with similar wounds and found they had very different pain responses. ""Extent of wound bears only a slight relationship, if any (often none at all), to the pain experienced."
"In a situation in which a wound has great advantage and means escape from overpowering anxiety and fear of death on the battlefield (war wounds terminating military service), extensive wounds are associated with comparatively little pain. In a situation in which the wound connotes disaster (major surgery in civil life), lesser wounds are associated with far more pain than in the former situation. The essential difference appears to be in the difference in anxiety level in the two cases, in the attitude of the patient, and in his reaction to his wound."
These quotes are from this JAMA article. You can read the full text of the article by clicking an option on the left of the screen.
The Bunny:
I wonder if wee/teen!Sam (the civilian) was ever injured at the same time (or at a later time to the same extent) as Dean or John (the soldiers) and had a LOT more pain than either of them.
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Date: 2010-10-16 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 03:05 am (UTC)Thank you! I can't wait to see what you come up with. :-D
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 03:19 am (UTC)I don't have any other particular requirements, just that at least someone notices the pain difference. You can have them interpret/rationalize it however you want. So many different angsty possibilities! :-D
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:22 am (UTC)KK. I should have something in a few days. I'll probably make it a couple of chapters long if it goes the way I'm thinking/wanting. I'm finishing up a fic of my own, but I'll start this one while I finish it up :)
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:29 am (UTC)