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The Scale That Asks What You Can Do
How the ACPA Quality of Life Scale measures the day, not the hurt. Every person living with chronic pain knows the question. You walk into the clinic, you sit down on the paper-covered table, and someone asks you to rate your pain from zero to ten. I have answered that question for thirty-seven years. I…
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The Science Speaks for Itself
A clinician said that recently. I have been thinking about it ever since. Someone passed along a remark a clinician had made. The question was whether patients belong in the room where research gets designed. The clinician’s answer was clean and confident: they did not need to hear from the patient. The science speaks for…