Feeling of wellness is purely subjective and differs from individual to individual. Some patients over react to their symptoms like pain, fever , giddiness or dyspnea! This could vary depending on the age, gender, education, geographic area, prosperity, past experience , bringing up or mental constitution of any human being. Actually we can not comment on mental response to any discomfort arising due to injury or infection which is a personal experience.
On the other hand doctors lay more stress on objective assessment like vital parameters and lab / imaging reports to decide the grade of gravity of any sickness. Of course they do take into consideration the loudness of manifest symptoms of their patients. Supposedly, a patient is hospitalized by the treating doctor who is critical, serious or unable to nurse himself or herself. Parenteral feeds, injectable medication, assisted…