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Ask a Doctor: Fighting Pain with Your Mind

July 27, 2012

Over the course of the 30 years I have practiced exclusively in the area of chronic pain, I have spoken to many ...

Ask the Doctor: Fixing broken back bones

May 25, 2012

When a patient of mine visited me recently (a lovely 74-year old-woman), she wanted to know if a special procedure ...

Ask the Doctor: Pain, your car and your wallet: What do they have in common?

April 18, 2012

You must think that this is a very strange title for an article on chronic pain by a pain doctor. However, you will ...

Disaster in the Making: Provinces have No Plan to Help Ease in New Oxycontin Restriction

February 24, 2012

Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures OxyContin (a powerful opiate and painkiller) is replacing it with a drug ...

Ask the Doctor: The 5 crises in Pain Management

February 24, 2012

February 24th 2012: I just could not resist passing on to you a summary of an article that hit my desk. It bears the ...

Back to Opioids. The dual tragedy continues. PART II

January 26, 2012

In Part I of this two part series, I discussed over-prescription and overuse of  opioids in Ontario and other ...

Spinal Stenosis: The burden of the aging spine!

January 26, 2012

Hi, my name is Bernie. Like most of you, I have suffered from low back pain on and off, but more recently I have ...

Taking charge of your life: Living well with Chronic Pain

November 18, 2011

This was the title of the fourth annual symposium, held by ACTION Ontario, the not-for-profit organization I chair, on ...

Ask the Doctor: The virus that can change your life for ever

September 29, 2011

Amira (not her real name), at 70 thought that life was good (before she became a patient of mine): The kids had grown ...

Ask the Doctor: A Ghost Arm

July 29, 2011

When Helena (a patient of mine) showed me her photo taken 2 years before, she seemed tall, slim, with beautiful dark ...