No More Grin and Bear It When It’s Time to See the Doctor About Pain “How do you measure different levels of pain? In hertz.” There are an awful lot of jokes about pain, considering an estimated 50 million adults suffer from chronic pain and another 19.6 million have high-impact chronic pain. In this case, laughter is not the best medicine. People wait entirely too long to see the doctor about pain. Pain is the body’s alert system. It’s the brain signaling to you with an uncomfortable sensation that something is amiss, and possibly a threat. Chronic pain is classified