Well, we’re less than a month from Christmas now, so that means… holiday baking! Not only for Christmas, but also for my Jewish and Muslim friends, and for some who celebrate other holidays. For friends who don’t celebrate anything over the holiday season (except for Read More …
There’s an interesting article over on Quartz, with a truly striking description of chronic pain, written by a physician: Chronic pain is torture and it terrorizes the patient’s brain.”(1) Wow. This is such a simple and elegant statement of a complex set of physiological – Read More …
Here’s the solution to a word-search puzzle I created for November 6th; the 2017 awareness-raising day for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS. It’s a rare and usually invisible disease, and to make it even harder to pin down, many physicians seem to use its Read More …
I had some fun in the waiting area of my physiotherapy (PT) clinic tonight, with one of the youngsters who was sitting there. His dad got into the act as well, as did one of the clinic employees who happened to be walking by ‘-) As Read More …
I never would have thought that a medical appointment would be a good thing. Today’s was! ‘-) I had a rare disease-related appointment this morning, in the downtown (city centre) area. That’s about a 20- to 45-minute drive from my office, depending on the traffic. Read More …
After the very disturbing conversation that I’d had with another physician in June (read my post on Betrayal for details), I finally submitted a detailed complaint to the hospital’s Service Quality and Complaints Commissioner in mid-August. On August 21 I received a call from their Read More …
