According to a survey done for the Canadian Pain Society and a coalition of pain support groups, direct health-care costs for treating pain amounts to more than $6 billion a year.
Although pathological skin picking and obsessive compulsive disorder share some clinical similarities, new research now suggests important differences exist and cast doubt on the conceptualization of PSP as part of the obsessive compulsive spectrum.
It wasn't the cathedral of Notre Dame or Montmartre's basilica calling to Dr. Vincent Hanlon that neared a religious experience, but his quest for heavenly bread from the famed boulangeries.
