It is a small office nestled in the labyrinthine corridors of the Voiron hospital. Before entering you can read on a wall “Center for the assessment and treatment of pain”. It is to this service, which works in particular on chronic pain and whose origins date back to 2004, that the nurse Dominique Gillet is assigned.
At the same time he is also vice-president of the CLUD; an acronym meaning Pain Relief Committee, chaired locally by Dr. Emmanuel Bochet.
This facility was made mandatory in all French hospitals in 1998. Today in Voiron
14 people are part of it as well as about twenty “correspondents …
