‘I can help you live with pain, not eradicate it’

Clinical psychologist Bridgette Sum’s role is to shift patients’ perspective on pain and help them find practical solutions to live with it. When patients see clinical psychologist Bridgette Sum, many have high hopes that she will be able to eradicate their chronic pain. She tells them, gently, that she is not there to do that.

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