Rachael Bosma, PhD, is research lead at Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute. She is also the co-director at the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain.
Patients need to be at the centre of their own care, and they need to manage their pain for what it is, a chronic disease. The time to reimagine chronic pain care is now – we can’t afford not to and the millions of suffering Canadians can’t afford to wait.