Why is it that medical professionals refer to pain as "discomfort" or being "uncomfortable"? I know it's probably an attempt to be politically correct to make patients who are having pain calm down, but it's PAIN!!! when you have a dry socket! No offense, but labor pains and dry socket are NOT discomfort! They are P--A--I--N in no uncertain terms! It minimizes a patient's problem instead of validating them when such terms are used to describe agony.

I don't mean this to be offensive. You all don't know me very well here, so it might come off as if I'm being mean. I'm not at all. I'm meaning this with perfectly benign intent.