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
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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
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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
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I’m pleased to announce a new relationship — PatientAssistance.com and Every Patient’s Advocate…. The courtship didn’t last long before the commitment. PatientAssistance.com is a non-profit organization which helps those who are uninsured gain access to the pharmaceutical drugs they need. Check it out — a very necessary helping hand for those who just can’t afford
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De-cancered — a good word, isn’t it? Look at these two faces — they look quite healthy, don’t you think? Well — they most certainly are — quite healthy, despite the chemo both faced prior to proving neither one had the cancer she was diagnosed with. What this photo doesn’t show, is the emotion behind
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I’ve been running a poll on my About.com patient empowerment site, asking the question Tom Brokaw asked in the debate this week: Is healthcare a right? or a responsibility? Do we as individuals believe we should all have a right to healthcare coverage, similar to the way we have police protection, or fire protection, or
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From time to time I’ll read an article written by a doctor about his or her experience as a patient. Several have written books about their experiences, and what they learned from them. Often their own patient-hood causes some sort of epiphany. That “aha!” moment that helps them GET IT. Their work is no longer
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