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Carrying September Forward
PWLE Voices · Issue 7 · October 5, 2026 Carrying September Forward · Sixth in a Series of Six From the Editor Carrying September Forward The ribbons come down October 1. Here’s what doesn’t. A note on my own seat I hold several of the seats this piece describes. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)…
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The Patients’ Questions
PWLE Voices · Issue 7 · October 5, 2026 Carrying September Forward · Sixth in a Series of Six Partner in Practice The Patients’ Questions A conversation with Dr. Steven Z. George — a physical therapist turned Duke pain researcher on the questions that built his career, none of which were his. Where I stand…
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Who Gets a Month?
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Informed · Research Update Who Gets a Month? Nobody is in charge of the awareness calendar. September belongs to pain because a coalition took it — not because anyone in Washington voted. There is no…
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The Word Changes at the Border
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Tools & Resources The Word Changes at the Border Four countries, four names for the same chair. Knowing which one you are being offered tells you what you are actually being asked to…
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Ask in the Spring
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Engaged · Open Calls Ask in the Spring Four places your experience is being asked for. One closes next month, one opens in five weeks, one is open every day of the year, and one…
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Say It First
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Tools & Resources Say It First Every observance on the calendar has money behind it, and there is no public place to look. Investigators have a federal rule for conflicts of interest. People…
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Getting to Know Virginia McIntyre
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Connected · Meet a Fellow PWLE Getting to Know Virginia McIntyre She kept her head down for nearly a decade. Then a stranger in a conference room told her what she had done. A note…
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Somebody Needs to Do Something
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Featured · Meet a Fellow PWLE “Somebody Needs to Do Something” A fall at work took the job Saira Maria Loza loved, and pointed her toward the rooms where she could speak for the patients she…
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Three Shows, and What It Takes to Keep One On
PWLE Voices · Issue 5 · September 21, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fourth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Worth a Listen · Installment Two · A continuing article Three Shows, and What It Takes to Keep One On The podcasts about engagement itself. Staying on the air turns out to be…
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Because They Breathe
PWLE Voices · Issue 5 · September 21, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fourth in a Series of Six Featured · A Researcher With Lived Experience Because They Breathe Ryan Wexler studies pain and has lived with it since he was thirteen. Ask him whether that lets a study team skip having people with lived…
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Getting to Know Laura Wandner
PWLE Voices · Issue 5 · September 21, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fourth in a Series of Six Stay Connected · Meet a Fellow PWLE Getting to Know Laura Wandner She lived with chronic pain while working inside the agency that funds pain research. What she saw from that side of the table —…