Not sure what it looks like where you live, but it’s cold outside where I live in Upstate NY, and we’ve got plenty of the white stuff on the ground. Whereas some friends might curl up with a good book, I tend to gravitate to puzzles and thought provokers when I’m indoors and have some […]
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If you’ve read this blog for awhile, then you know 2008 was the year of SPTCL misdiagnoses. SPTCL, subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma, was the rare and deadly lymphoma that kick-started my work as Every Patient’s Advocate. I was told I had it. In fact, I was told by two labs and an oncologist that I
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Over the past several months I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Dr. Gregory Eastwood. He may claim he is retired, but that would hardly be true. He is the former president of SUNY Upstate Medical University and former interim president of Case Western Reserve University. Today he teaches bioethics and humanities to medical
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I was excited to hear that the new secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, was reaching out to the American people for input on what a reformed healthcare system would look like. Imagine — asking the people who must participate. What a unique and exciting concept! That was… until I actually went to
Is Daschle Really Interested in Our Ideas for Healthcare Reform? Read More »
As healthcare reform becomes more and more the topic du-year (and next year, and the year after that — a long time, I’m sure) — this one aspect will become more and more of a challenge: finding a primary care doctor and/or getting an appointment to see one. In my last post, I cited a
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Seven out of ten of the people who read this post will nod their heads in understanding. You’re sick, or you hurt. You need to see your primary care doctor as soon as possible. You call to make an appointment, in hopes you’ll be seen within the next few hours — but NO. Not gonna
Need a Same Day Doctor Appointment? Can’t Make It Happen? Read More »
Shannon Brownlee, the author of Overtreated, manages to rearrange my perspective from time to time. She takes the facts I have learned, or the concepts I study, and makes me see them in an entirely different light. I may not always agree with her! But I never fail to learn plenty. This recent article penned
Healthcare Dysfunction Spawns Its Own Myths Read More »
From Twitter (just getting used to — but have already learned things I never would have known!) — a link to Change.gov — and a request to share our ideas for an improvement in the healthcare system. You’ll have to stand in line! yes — there are already thousands of suggestions. But somehow I get
Prez Elect Obama Wants to Hear from You (and me too!) Read More »
