Occasionally a Patient
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Currently within the Canadian research landscape, patients as partners or ambassadors have become part of the fabric for research funding; “nothing about me without me” (1). My recent personal experiences at pain conferences and research team meetings as a patient partner, who is also an academic researcher, suggest we need to evolve a philosophy of engagement that serves both the patient and the researchers and/or clinicians. This Perspectives’ contribution is intended to open up possible conversations about the role of patient experience and the interconnections needed to build strong research communities, through a consideration of a personcentered relational model (2).To help locate and describe the role of the patient within the structure of a scientific research community I turn to the work of Merleau-Ponty:
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