Pain Posts

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Hurry Sundown

October 18, 2013

I’m a Boomer, and my grade 4 class was cancelled and sent home when we learned JFK had been shot. I saw Lee Harvey ...

Ask a Doctor: Smoking pot, painkiller for the patient and headache for the doctor

October 4, 2013

  Editor's Note: Our doctor in residence, Dr. Mailis Gagnon, advises us that this is to be the first of a ...

Ask a Doctor: Movement, pain and function

July 12, 2013

In the very early years of my career (many moons ago), I was called to see Ms. E., a delightful 75 year old woman who ...

Ask a Doctor: You are not allowed to be negative

May 31, 2013

I just came back from attending the Canadian Pain Society’s annual conference in Winnipeg.   I actually go every ...

Ask a Doctor: What the experts say about treating pain in older people

May 3, 2013

A few weeks ago I came across an article published in Age Ageing (2013;42(2):151-153), that I thought I would share ...

Boomers Push Doctor-Assisted Dying in End-of-Life Revolt

April 19, 2013

Claudia Burzichelli doesn’t want to die like her dad. Nine years ago, her father, already afflicted with ...

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 ...

Hope in 10 cancer breakthroughs

January 11, 2013

Where do your cancer research dollars go? “The mission that we have is to eventually create a world where Canadians ...

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: 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 ...