Back in June I spent almost a week as a volunteer Patient Partner at the North American Pain School (NAPS), held each year in Montebello QC.This annual educational event, for early-career pain researchers, features talks and workshops with leading experts in pain management and research Read More …
If you’ve been following along with me on this wild ride from bioethics and research ethics professional to Patient Partner – living with severe chronic pain and a Mild Cognitive Impairment from the same rare disease – then you’ll know that along the way I’ve Read More …
Last month, in the hectic midst of my week away volunteering as a chronic pain Patient Partner with the North American Pain School (NAPS), at the stunning Fairmont Le Château Montebello, I received some good news for my Art Despite Pain initiative (#ArtDespitePain). What was Read More …
I arrived this afternoon at the stunning Château Montebello hotel, built almost a hundred years ago by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company as one of Canada’s ‘grand railway hotels’. This designation includes The Algonquin in St. Andrews (NB), the castle-like Château Frontenac in Québec City, the Read More …
There was an interesting piece in Medscape yesterday, about chronic pain and placebo ‘treatments’, which raised some intriguing questions from my bioethics perspective. Although focused primarily on osteoarthritis, this likely applies to at least a few other chronic pain conditions as well. It’s quite a Read More …
In a bittersweet moment, the 131st annual exhibition of one of Canada’s oldest still-active art societies wrapped up today; the Women’s Art Society of Montreal (WASM). This art show was presented at the stunning Conseil des arts de Montréal (Montreal Arts Council), originally Montréal’s first Read More …
