There is a general consensus on what physical pain is in society. Pain is never good. It's something that hurts and no one ever wants to really suffer. In infants and toddlers, pain is associated with screaming, crying, and the word “ouch!” As they become adults, pain and all its expressions follow and branch with them. Its dimensions multiply and what hurt as children no longer does. At the same time, they begin to experience new physical pain – pain that creates such unimaginable physical suffering. Today, pain remains an unpleasant sensation that causes physical suffering; however, it can be viewed and interpreted from many different points of view. One perspective is the personal point of view, in which many people have difficulty describing the sensation of enduring pain or the physicality of it. Another view is the neurobiological view, where neurologists have readily created three separate types of pain and explanations for each. In her book “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World,” Elaine Scarry begins by immediately pointing out that pain is difficult to express. He states that all languages, including English, fail to provide a means of communication when it comes to physical discomfort. Scarry takes into account that different cultures may express pain differently. Some people have a tendency to verbalize their pain more than other cultures, who are taught that expressing pain is a sign of weakness. However, despite cultural differences between groups of people, he states that no culture, nation, or country has successfully created a language for the vocalization of pain in today's society. You mention that in ancient Greece, there are accounts of long... halves of paper... highlighting the differences between the two. To illustrate, patients may describe the pain felt when burning their finger on a hot stove as a brief, but intense, burning, throbbing sensation. Doctors, however, would immediately interpret it as nociceptive pain, in which the sensations felt were simply engaged by the body to protect itself from further damage. It is common for patients and doctors to disagree, but they share common ground, unbeknownst to either of them. Both doctors and patients recognize that pain can be difficult to decipher and express to others. The contexts in which they do so are very different indeed, but this simple fact alone can make the difference whether or not society can create a language that is suitable for all and made by patients, those who suffer, and by doctors, those who they speak in the name of their suffering.