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My Biography

December 13th, 2006 · 10 Comments

Hello!  I’m a Board Certified Psychiatrist in practice for 15 years in Pennsylvania.  I have a private practice, working mostly with patients in chronic pain.  I also teach psychiatry residents and do research in chronic pain.  My guiding principle in practicing as a physician is to help patients in all areas of their lives - medical, psychological and spiritual.  Chronic pain is a challenge to your spirit, but a challenge that can always be faced and your situation improved.

I also know the challenge of chronic pain first-hand, having experienced a chronic pain condition myself for many years.  Thankfully, my situation has improved, though is hasn’t been cured.  I use my personal understanding of what it’s like to live with chronic pain in my work as a pain management physician.

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10 responses so far ↓

  • Jan // Apr 30, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Great site!

  • Don Rainone, M.D. // Jun 26, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Hi HtCwP,

    Read about you in Rochester magazine and looked up your website. Probably won’t be attending the 20th reunion in Sept. Congratulations on your work!

    Take Care,

    Don

  • HtCwP // Jun 26, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Hi, my medical school friend,
    Glad you stopped by my site!

  • Dave // Aug 28, 2007 at 7:30 am

    Dear HtCwP,

    My colleague and I are trying to get into your seminar at the Academy of Pain Management in Las Vegas concerning he prescription of pain medicine. It has been a challenge in our field. Do you know how we could get in to hear your class?
    Dave

  • How to Cope with Pain // Aug 31, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Dave, I assume anyone would be able to attend the conference. Is there a specific problem?

  • Ellen // Nov 1, 2007 at 1:08 am

    Great to have found you! 20+ years of chronic pain; 29 surgeries and bouts of CFS/FM.
    I totally believe that 2Cor.1:3-7 is life verse for me.

  • J // May 8, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    I like how you disclose a lot of the long term side effects on the antidepressants/psychotic meds :)

  • Carol // Jan 11, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    Am so glad I have come to this site. I needed this. I guess we are placed where we should be when the time is right..If you are in Rochester then you are not that far from me, really maybe you are about 2-3 hrs West of me, I am in Upstate NY

    Am glad to listen and learn. I personally know that our spirit and soul affect our physical beings. This I know from experience, but do not doubt the electrical charge from nerves either and that is proven of course.

  • L // May 28, 2009 at 11:47 am

    are you on Twitter, too? If so, what is your username?

  • How to Cope with Pain // May 28, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    No, I haven’t taken up that habit. Too little time.

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