Before you read this blog post, I’ll beg you to be patient with me. Having been diagnosed with lymphoma myself, and reading the article I’m about to cite, my disgust and anger can’t be bridled… If you have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, there may be a cure for you that your oncologist hasn’t even […]
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Before you read this blog post, I’ll beg you to be patient with me. Having been diagnosed with lymphoma myself, and reading the article I’m about to cite, my disgust and anger can’t be bridled… If you have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, there may be a cure for you that your oncologist hasn’t even
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The AP issued an article this week (picked up in many pubs, I’m sure — here’s a link) about injecting microchips into humans, in part to improve their healthcare. The idea is that there are a number of problems we human beings could solve if we just had a microchip implanted in our arms. For
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My colleague Betsy McCaughey, chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, publishes in July’s Best Hospitals 2007 of US News and World Report that hospitals must begin to take responsibility for their infection rates, and begin to take the necessary steps to clean themselves up. She cites a study that shows that “65 percent
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Yesterday brought two excellent and interesting conversations, both of which could directly affect your medical care. First, my news alerts sent me to the website of a family practice physician turned patient advocate, Dr. Delia Chiaramonte. I wonder if the people in Baltimore, MD realize what a gem they have to help them? Dr. Chiaramonte
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The term “patient empowerment” triggered a link to the following from Kim’s Emergiblog: (we’re sorry – this link has been removed for malware) Kim is an emergency room nurse who blogs for other emergency room nurses. This particular post was of interest because it focuses on patient advocacy and respect, at least once you get
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The Today Show this morning featured a vignette about what to do if you are denied a treatment or therapy by your health insurance company — the steps you can take to, perhaps, change their mind. Yeah, right. Like that might happen. The story featured a woman who is dying of a rare form of
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I’m only adding this post because I think you might be as interested as I am at the searches people do when they somehow find my blog. WordPress gives us this information in our behind-the-scenes statistics. Of course there are hundreds of searches that will find my various postings. Most would be what you would
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