Timing is a Virtue: Balancing Patience and Impatience

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 4th, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Years ago, I went on a camping trip with a friend. We arrived at our first stop on a very cold night. We lit a campfire, just intending to get warm, but also discovering a valuable life lesson: We needed...
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Interviewing Patients and Doctors for an Article on The Good Patient Syndrome

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

February 24th, 2010 • Leave a Comment

I am writing an article on what I have termed The Good Patient Syndrome — where those of us with chronic health conditions end up behaving in ways that are against our interest, so as to avoid being...
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Why the Ten Point Pain Scale is Useless

By: Jason Reid, Journalist

February 22nd, 2010 • 3 Comments

After spending 30-years with Crohn’s disease, a painful inflammation of the intestine, I have had more emergency room visits than many people have had summer vacations.  I have had kidney stones, gall...
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Prepare a New Doctor for a Visit

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 16th, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Following is a letter I wrote to a podiatrist before going to his office. I purposely put all the credentials at the top, to do an end run around one of those “pain in the ass patient” judgements....
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Challenging the Theory of the “Secondary Gain” of Chronic Pain and Illness

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 11th, 2010 • Leave a Comment

In the past 24 hours or so, I have had two conversations where someone has talked about the “secondary gain” of chronic pain. As in, when pain is chronic, that’s because people enjoy what they are...
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