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Patrice Forget, MD, PhD, FFPMRCA

@Patrice_Forget

Clin. Chair in Anaesthesia, Prof. @aberdeenuni @UoAEpi @Abdn_Anaesth @NHSGrampian Deputy-EiC @EJA_Journal Chair @SIP_PainPolicy & PANDOS @ESAIC_org
Aberdeen, United Kingdom scholar.google.com/citations?user… Joined February 2012
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Patrice Forget, MD, PhD, FFPMRCA @Patrice_Forget
Europe has much to do to improve the quality of and access to safe pain management thelancet.com/journals/lance…
www.thelancet.com Europe has much to do to improve the quality of and access to safe pain management We have read with interest the debate surrounding opioid use in the USA and related deaths. We also welcomed the different perspectives of Gerard A Kalkman and colleagues,1 concluding that universal...
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Patrice Forget, MD, PhD, FFPMRCA @Patrice_Forget
Proud to have been there to help prevent the impact of pain, from individual to societal.

Thanks all for your support and presence!
Societal Impact Pain (SIP) Platform @SIP_PainPolicy Oct 16, 2025
@Patrice_Forget outlining the SIP long-term priorities. More information here: europeanpainfederation.eu/sip/ #painprevention #europeanpainawarenessday
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Patrice Forget, MD, PhD, FFPMRCA @Patrice_Forget
Fascinating concept. Strong rationale, including neurophysiological. Many transferable findings in different fields of (pain) research and management.

I remember we wrote that pain fluctuates and is a fragile endpoint. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33256031/

This is very convincing evidence.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Characterization of Preoperative, Postsurgical, Acute and Chronic Pain in High Risk Breast Cancer... Pain is a complex phenomenon, but also a fragile and unstable endpoint. Pain after breast cancer surgery does not necessarily mean breast pain but also musculoskeletal and other pains. The permanence...
Lance M McCracken @lance_mccracken Mar 28, 2025
Seriously brilliant work from our students, @ftasundstrom @alavefjord . Well worth checking out.
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