Anecdotally, I had a very intricate horizontal impacted wisdom tooth removal surgery done on barely any anesthesia because the thing was dangerously close to a nerve and I needed to be able to inform the dentist when he was getting too close to it (AR people: there is a market here for in-surgery diagnostic image overlays). It wasn't that bad (the healing process was more annoying), I was more focused on the ongoing procedure (but then again I was in med school before I decided to switch to computer science).
Slightly less anecdotally, I have a lot of doctor friends and while they may indulge in overwrought "look at how clever I am" medication schemes for ailments that do not really warrant it, I think that it's mostly because they feel that they don't have the time to rest like the author of the article (and this doesn't involve routine painkiller use either).
Some people argue that in my country (Italy) there is a cultural aversion to painkillers due to the historical influence of the Catholic Church, but it's hard to measure the effect.
Slightly less anecdotally, I have a lot of doctor friends and while they may indulge in overwrought "look at how clever I am" medication schemes for ailments that do not really warrant it, I think that it's mostly because they feel that they don't have the time to rest like the author of the article (and this doesn't involve routine painkiller use either).
Some people argue that in my country (Italy) there is a cultural aversion to painkillers due to the historical influence of the Catholic Church, but it's hard to measure the effect.