Dr. Mailis 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: #59. Sleepless nights, wasted days

March 8, 2013

Ms. AF was a 54-year-old woman who came to see me with complaints of electric shock-like pain in her leg after a leg ...

Ask the Doctor: Talking with CARP members

October 5, 2012

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, I delivered a talk as a chronic pain physician and as chair of ACTION Ontario, to the ...

Back to Opioids: the dual tragedy continues – PART I

January 13, 2012

Over a year ago I wrote a column about the “Opioid Public Health Crisis” in Ontario. Opioids are a class of ...

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 ...