My head is spinning since my radio interview this morning with Dr. Sarah Friebert from Akron Children’s Hospital. I was fascinated by our conversation, and I’ll admit, I get a bit choked up thinking back on it. If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a spiritual person. I believe […]
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An elderly friend recounted this story to me. He’s upset. I’m upset. And I expect by the time we’re finished, the doctor will be more than a little upset, too. Mr. Z is 90 years old, and except for macular degeneration which renders him mostly blind, he is very healthy and quite sharp. He lives
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An elderly friend recounted this story to me. He’s upset. I’m upset. And I expect by the time we’re finished, the doctor will be more than a little upset, too. Mr. Z is 90 years old, and except for macular degeneration which renders him mostly blind, he is very healthy and quite sharp. He lives
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Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard, gives us all good advice in the column she wrote this week in the Boston Globe called Longing for Days the Doctor Still Advised. In her column, she follows the “history” of the role of patient as participant in decision-making about his/her own health care. In effect,
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We received word yesterday that a dear family friend died while in the hospital. He was an 81-year-old gentleman who my parents (and therefore I) have known for decades. He was hospitalized a month ago with COPD. About a week after he arrived in the hospital, his wife called me, very upset, to tell me
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So when is news not news? When it’s invented for the sake of sales and marketing, that’s when. My friend and co-advocate, Helen Haskell in South Carolina, forwarded a link to an article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Trudy Lieberman about what those in the marketing biz call VNRs — Video News Releases. Excellent
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… a bit embarrassing…. thank you Julia for your very very kind words….! www.honestmedicine.com
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… a bit embarrassing…. thank you Julia for your very very kind words….! www.honestmedicine.com
Much Appreciated and…. Read More »
