The Lack of Words for Pain- (short passage reading)

In this reading I chose the following passage:

"..the person in pain is ordinarily so bereft of the resources of speech, it is not suprising that the language for pain should sometimes be brought into being by those who are not themselves in pain but who speak on behalf of those who are." (pg. 6).

When i read this passage I immediately thought of a doctor. A doctors listens to your ailments when you visit and then through his knowledge he descides what the best path is for recovery. Have you ever gone into the doctors and found it difficult to answer his questions when you are trying to describe what isnt feeling irght about you? I know I have plenty of times and I never really realized that it was because of this destructive nature of physical pain. It destroys language and makes it difficult to explain perfect and you cant always pin point its origin. Doctors are bombarded with patients everyday and they see the patients as "unreliable narrators" (pg. 6), so they themselves have to use our explanation to come up with his own even thorugh he is not the one in pain. It is interesting after reading this about how they have to pick up on keywords such as: "pulsing" or "throbbing" (pg. 7) and others suchas: "burning pain" or "searing pain" (pg. 8). They naturally slightly "doubt" our accounts of pain and use there expertise to help us.