Dr. Karen Davis has devoted her life to learning about something no one wants.
And there's still so much to learn, she says, about pain.
She was turned on to the topic by her North York, Ont., high-school biology teacher, Marty Greenberg.
"He was excited because they'd just discovered opiate receptors," she recalls. "It was a cool idea that we have mechanisms in the brain to not only feel pain, but also to modulate pain.
"That really got me hooked on the whole topic of pain and pain control."
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