"A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." -- Albert Einstein, 1946
The other day I received a call from a doctor in Maine asking to talk to me about the comprehensive pain management programs that I help run here...
(1) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 1:46 PM
Last month, The New England Journal of Medicine published a call to action for a "cultural transformation in the way clinicians and the public view pain and its treatment." The authors, Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean for the Stanford School of Medicine, and Dr. Noreen Clark from the Center...
Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 5:49 PM
If you or a loved one is one of the estimated 116 million Americans with chronic pain, then you appreciate what a game-changer pain can be when it comes to things like performing daily activities, functioning at work or trying to exercise. Your pain may leave you feeling...
(1) Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 2:59 PM
Pay a visit to a genetic expert and ask what the single most important piece of information is in assessing your risk for specific diseases, and what do you think they will tell you? Well surprisingly, the answer won't be one of the expensive new-age genetic tests that have come...
(3) Comments | Posted October 25, 2011 | 8:37 AM
Preventing pain in the workplace should be an essential part of fighting the rising prevalence of chronic pain in our society. The work environment can often become a source or contributing factor for many chronic pain conditions. As many of us spend more of our wakeful hours at work than...
(12) Comments | Posted October 4, 2011 | 8:23 AM
Imagine that you are not just wealthy but super rich and incredibly famous. You travel the world, know influential people and can basically have anything the planet has to offer. Now, if I also told you that you harbored some common chronic medical problems, and that you would die young,...
(8) Comments | Posted August 24, 2011 | 9:05 AM
First off, I must disclose that I have never taken a business class, always reach for the sports page over the financial section of the paper, and when I look at a spreadsheet I tend to go straight to the bottom number on the far right. This may make me...
(24) Comments | Posted August 5, 2011 | 8:36 AM
If you peered over your child's shoulder while they were doing their homework and saw that they were doing it all wrong, what would you do? My guess is you would be livid if teachers had your kid coming home thinking 2+2=5, and you would want to get to the...
(9) Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 12:09 PM