Doctor John

It's a fascinating thing because there's the physical nature of pain and then there's the brain nature of pain and how someone perceives what pain is.

Someone might have pain which is 10 out of 10 and someone else might have the same pain that's 2 out of 10.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, fascinating stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, best one was when I was driving down the motorway in England and I was working in ED in England and suddenly I went whack and so then we changed and my wife drove me back and then she drove me into a traffic jam.

Have you ever tried to writhe around the inside of a car trying to climb out the windows and out the doors?

Anyway, that's not nice.

But anyway, the pain is...

Bryce has got a cough.

Painful as well.

There's very little you can do to absolutely remove a cough, right?

A cough is caused by a couple of things.

One is the irritability of the tubes taking air down into your lungs.

When you get a respiratory tract infection, you clear out all the nice protective lining layer of the big tubes and they become really twitchy.

And as we're saying, as the temperature drops, that twitchiness will increase, and overnight your natural body steroids decreases, so coughs will always come out at night.

Lying down flat, bang, you're going to cough.

So what we look for is cough plus.

Cough plus fever, cough plus pain when you breathe, cough plus night sweats, cough plus increased shortness of breath, cough plus sudden weight loss.

And a cough that's getting worse.