Just a note: today, an article that I wrote is being featured on the website for participatory medicine...which is a movement that is focused on the attempt to try to get physicians to work together with their patients and to make them an active force on their own treatment team. It also encourages patients to live up to their responsibility to educate themselves so that they are qualified to make good decisions about their own healthcare. Here is the link for the article which I've guest-blogged at "epatient Dave's" website. ("epatient" stands for "empowered patient") ... Dave is one of the initiators of this movement which is beginning to make a large impact in medicine...and which is revolutionizing the traditional patient/physician relationship.
http://e-patients.net/archives/2010/12/im-getting-impatient-an-empowered-patient-guest-post.html
Please pay his blog a visit....Also, if you have any interest in a fascinating story: Dave deBronkart's story, which tells about his battle with and overcoming of Stage 4 cancer when he was given mere weeks to live, is written and published in autobiographical form in the book: Laugh, Sing, and Eat like a Pig. Years later, Dave is well, and an activist in patient - doctor relations in the field called "Participatory Medicine."
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