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 …
I’ve been a Patient Partner with the Canadian Pain Society (CPS) for more than five years now, although they use the term PWLE or Person With Lived Experience. The CPS is an organization of healthcare professionals, researchers, and trainees who study or treat pain. Founded Read More …
One of my favourite quotations is also among the most misquoted or only partially quoted. You’ve likely heard Alexander Graham Bell’s expression “When one door closes another door opens”, but that wasn’t his entire statement. His full comment was: “When one door closes another door Read More …
Four weeks from now I’ll be carefully packing several large boxes, each containing five of my framed watercolour paintings. These boxes will then be hand-delivered, by me and my sweetheart, to the School of Continuing Studies at McGill University. We’ll then be on hand to Read More …
These are a few of my favourite watercolours, from the painting-a-day challenge I set for myself in September. With the word “pain” built right into painting, I decided to create a month-long series of fairly quick lunch-, dinner-, or break-time watercolours to mark international Pain Read More …
