How the ‘painless woman’ helps paint a bigger picture of pain
Doctors can learn a lot from the case of Jo Cameron, a British woman who recently made headlines for her diminished perception of pain
Imagine a life without pain. No toothache. No period pain. No arthritis.
A woman who feels no pain has been in the news recently, linked to a case study published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Jo Cameron came to the attention of researchers in her late 60s, after undergoing normally excruciating arthritis surgery with only paracetamol for post-recovery pain.
Her life was full of more or less painless injury. Even childbirth barely fazed her.
