Harvard Law graduate Kate Nicholson served 18 years in the DOJ as a health policy and civil rights lawyer and is an expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act. When a surgical mishap immobilized her for 20 years, opiate meds helped her continue. Kate is known for her TEDx talk, What We Lose When We Undertreat Pain, leads the National Pain Advocacy Center (nationalpain.org), and sits on the CDC's Opioid Workgroup.

Dr Stuart McGill's research investigated issues related to the mechanisms that cause back pain, and how to rehabilitate back-pained people into injury resilience and better performance. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups, and elite athletes and teams from around the world.

Is the College helping Ontario's doctors alleviate suffering, or is something else going on? What she found is horrifying.

Join us as we chat with a semi-retired pain physician and find out what, if anything, has changed in pain management over the last 30 years.

A discussion of how Friedrich Engels phenomenon of "social murder" is applicable today in health care and pain policy.