Patient Empowerment

Patient Assistance: Access to Drugs for the Uninsured, and a Dose of EPA, Too

Health /Medical Consumerism, Health Insurance, Patient Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Patient Tools

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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Two Healthy De-Cancered Patients

Healthcare Quality, Medical Errors / Mistakes / Misdiagnosis, Patient Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Patient Safety, Patient Tools, SPTCL

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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Healthcare Reform – Do You Understand the Questions?

Health /Medical Consumerism, Health Insurance, Healthcare Quality, Patient Empowerment, Politics and Medicine

We all think we know what healthcare reform means — we think it means something about universal healthcare, right? You might be surprised to learn that “universal healthcare” isn’t what it’s about at all.  It’s about shifting who gets healthcare, figuring out how to pay for it, and knowing that any success we find will

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Frustrated by a Hospital Stay? Doctors Are Frustrated, Too

Doctor Communication, Healthcare Quality, Hospitals, Patient Empowerment, Patient Tools

One important theme in the information I share with patients, is to help them better understand their frustrations with healthcare as a basis for understanding how to get past those frustrations. Point-of-view is always a good place to begin.  Understanding the point of view of whatever it is that stands in your way can help

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Doctors as Patients – Maybe This Should be Part of Med School?

2 Comments / Doctor Communication, Healthcare Quality, Media, Patient Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Patient Tools

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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Have You Been Diagnosed with Cancer? Are You Sure the Diagnosis is Correct?

Healthcare Quality, Hospitals, Media, Medical Errors / Mistakes / Misdiagnosis, Patient Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Patient Safety, Patient Tools, Self Help

When I received my cancer diagnosis in 2004, and proved I didn’t really have cancer at all, it was the first time I had ever heard or known about that form of misdiagnosis. It’s backwards from those we hear about more frequently.  Most of the time we hear about a “missed diagnosis” — meaning someone

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