Pain rehab’s patient-blaming problem [3m]

Is a story about being “abused” at a chronic pain clinic believable? Yes — all too easily believed, unfortunately. The Mayo Clinic’s Pain Rehabilitation Center (PRC) program is a well-known, decades-old interdisciplinary pain rehab program that officially aims to help people “cope” with their serious chronic pain, to function and live better in spite of it, primarily with cognitive behavioural…