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My column in the Syracuse Post Standard on Jan 9 told about my mother-in-law’s hospital acquired infection post surgery in December. Thankfully she’s on the mend. She’s one of the lucky ones. Response to the column has been overwhelming. From stories to photos, one sadder than the next. Scares the bejeezus out of me! A
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A woman contacted me yesterday highly frustrated because she has been trying for seven months to get a diagnosis and so far — nuttin’. She asked me about it because she had just visited a specialist, and his first question to her had been “why are you here?” Turns out, the referral was made by
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(Two days of Today Show inspiration!) A vignette of the 1980s with a brief mention of the Rubik’s cube — and it struck me that it’s exactly what American Health Care has been reduced to. A six-sided, multi-colored puzzle that few people can solve, and most everyone gives up on. Some metaphor.
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(Two days of Today Show inspiration!) A vignette of the 1980s with a brief mention of the Rubik’s cube — and it struck me that it’s exactly what American Health Care has been reduced to. A six-sided, multi-colored puzzle that few people can solve, and most everyone gives up on. Some metaphor.
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Heard this on the Today Show this morning: http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/second_opinion06.shtml A study at the University of Michigan — women with breast cancer were studied, and 52% of the time a second opinion yielded changes in the original protocol recommendations for their treatments. Every Patient’s Advocate’s recommendation: whenever your treatment will be at ALL invasive (surgery, difficult
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It’s a new word to me, but today I learned it’s been around since 1999 (way back then!) Recognizing the web as fertile ground for those who fantasize they are suffering from some dreadful malady, “cyberchondria” was coined as the internet version of hypochondria, of course. As the moderator on the Research Help Board at
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She’s elderly. And for more than six months, she has complained with what seemed to be gastro-intestinal symptoms. Bloat, pain, fullness, lack of appetite, swelling and more. Tests on her gastro system including CT scans, ultrasound and an MRI were run and – nothing. Some of her current drugs, including Zoloft, were cut back to
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