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This episode discusses the historical misconception that infants could not feel pain, leading to surgeries performed without anesthesia.

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing how doctors used to think that babies couldn't feel pain, so they performed Surgery on Babies Without Anesthesia!!!!! ►Sources:History of infant pain research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1526590013000254 Article from 1986: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1986/08/13/surgery-without-anesthesia-can-preemies-feel-pain/54d32183-8eed-49a8-9066-9dc7cf0afa82/ Pediatric and neonatal pain - 80’s & 90’s: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8975193/ Pain research: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(1300025-4/fulltext#:~:text=What made this particular surgery,the truth about his surgery. https://magazine.ucsf.edu/kids-not-all-right Babies do feel pain: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421084812.htm Why it is hard to treat infant pain: https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/news/why-its-so-hard-to-treat-pain-in-infants Still not managing Childrens pain well? https://magazine.ucsf.edu/kids-not-all-right Why it is hard to treat infant pain- what we do now: https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/news/why-its-so-hard-to-treat-pain-in-infantsStory from reddit…

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