Ms. Cooper, listening to your presentation, the complexity of the information and knowledge required for a patient to manage pain is quite clear. It jumps out at me.
Forty years ago a telegraph pole I was working on broke off and put me through a fence and I had about 30 years of pain. We suddenly discovered physiotherapy that dealt with it. I felt like kissing that young lady every day I went for treatment because she found a way of correcting my neck. It sounds to me as if we've got a long way to go to inform patients, because in my case I had no concept whatsoever. I was in a travelling kind of job and not with a doctor who could spend the time.
What could the federal government do to assist in this kind of education? Do you see a role there at all?