In this first memorial lecture after John Severinghaus's death in 2021, the author traces his journey as a physician-scientist, using the framework of the hero's journey as described by the author Joseph Campbell 40 to 50 yr ago, and parallels that journey to his own. The author discusses how each were gadgeteers: Severinghaus in a creative engineering way, while the author's approach was asking simple questions translating basic research in pain from animals to humans. The classic hero's journey of departure to achieve a goal, then trials, transformation, and finally, returning with benefits to the individual and others is translated to the common physician-scientist career with motivations progressing from "I will show" to "I wonder if" to "I wonder why." Critical to this journey is self-questioning, openness to new ideas, and realizing that progress occurs through failure as much as success.

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缓解疼痛的小工具：2021 年 John W. Severinghaus 转化科学讲座。

在约翰·塞弗林豪斯 2021 年去世后的第一次纪念演讲中，作者使用作者约瑟夫·坎贝尔 40 至 50 年前描述的英雄旅程框架，追溯了他作为一名医学科学家的旅程，并将这段旅程与他自己的旅程相提并论. 作者讨论了每个人是如何成为小工具的：Severinghaus 以一种创造性的工程方式，而作者的方法是提出简单的问题，将疼痛的基础研究从动物转移到人类。经典英雄为实现目标而出发的旅程，然后是试炼、转变，最后是为了个人和他人的利益而返回的旅程，被转化为共同的医师-科学家生涯，动机从“我会展示”到“我想知道如果”到“我想知道为什么。” 这一旅程的关键是自我质疑，