Nurse: How bad is your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst ever?

Pt: 10/10

Nurse: The worst ever?

Pt: No

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And of course the answers of:

"12"

and (from the engineers, usually):

3.5 or 7.25.

Seriously. Hmmm.... oh bummer, here it says I can only give you Percocet if it's 7.45 or above. Sorry! Only Tylenol for you! Muwaaahahahahaha.

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also the ones who say they are in really bad pain, so you run and get the meds to find them asleep when you return.

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Except that sometimes people sleep as a way to escape pain (don't ever say that someone can't be in pain b/c they're asleep)

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