Angela Mailis Gagnon Posts

Ask the Doctor: The placebo effect revisited

April 3, 2013

For those who follow my column regularly, about 2-3 years ago I wrote an article on the power of placebos. To refresh ...

Ask the Doctor # 57: Pain Management in End-of-Life Care and the role of pain medications

February 8, 2013

In this article, I will specifically address the issue of how pain is managed with medications. As discussed in the ...

Ask a Doctor: Pain Management in End-of-Life Care

January 11, 2013

Mrs. K. is a 55 year-old woman, married with two teenager daughters. She was diagnosed with breast cancer 7 years ago. ...

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 ...

Ask the Doctor: A lost battle in our War on Pain

March 23, 2012

I borrowed this title from the thoughtful article by André Picard, published in The Globe and Mail on March 6, 2012. ...