Pain + Work = ??? The combination can go well, like a burger with fries. You may be able to accomplish great things despite pain, and work can be a focus away from discomfort. Or it can feel like trying to whip up a 10-course gourmet dinner in 5 minutes with your eyes closed. But what if […]

If the only sentence describing a book was that it contained “harrowing descriptions of pain,” most people would probably run the other way. But for me, a pain management psychiatrist, that phrase is a clear invitation to rush to the first page. South African author J. M. Coetzee has written Age of Iron which describes the pain of apartheid, loneliness and […]