Pain is NOT subjective

For my point of view, pain is subjective. But the powers that be and the doctors want it objectified and quantified in something they can understand. Nothing gets them rolling their their eyes more than the term "Fibromyalgia"

I hate to harp on this, but.......well, situations like yours bring it to the fore front over and over again.

Took as class to be full time once........sociology of health and illness. Next semester I went into the nursing program. I walked away from the soc. class with one thing standing out in my mind, and nothing (in school or in practice) has given me reason to dismiss it.

That thing is: This class's material focused alot on how, more than any other field in the U.S. industy, the medical field lacks competent leadership. Its management is flooded/infected with people put in positions of power for all the wrong reasons.

I started to read your post and right away saw "who is not a nurse" and bam, it all came back to me. Anyone who had any knowledge of supporting a pt. who has pain issues would understand what was going on from a clinical standpoint and why you reacted the way you did. But, well, your manager is not the right person for his/her position and.....well, you see the results.

Not that this will make you feel any better or offers any solutions on what to do about it. Its just that, jeez, no matter what I do to forget that soc. class's focus, something brings it back time and time again. Its a difficult situation to deal with, trust me I know. Dont really have any answers to dealing with this sort of management either. Its a shame the leadership of such a vital field are all the mental equivalent of house pets and are only there because they have an uncle who knows someone.