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 ...
Pain Posts
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 ...
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