November 2022

I’ve been getting a lot of correspondence lately.  Patients, colleagues and friends want to draw my attention to the soaring rate of depression in the world today. The articles point out that songwriters mention love far less frequently and hate more often these days.  Newspaper headlines are increasingly harrowing, and news coverage is far more […]

The rising incidence of chronic pain is one factor that plays a major role in the rise of global unhappiness.  According to a research paper on the prevalence of chronic pain published in the Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain, more than 1 in 5 adults in America experiences pain on