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What I Wish I’d Known Earlier…

This summer, I am reflecting and writing about what I wish that I had known earlier about getting good care following active cancer treatment, based on my experience with five different cancer diagnoses and what I have learned from others. If you have been diagnosed...
Medical Errors: Will We Act Up, Fight Back?

Medical Errors: Will We Act Up, Fight Back?

(Originally published on the CFAH Prepared Patient Forum January 16, 2013) Sometimes, angry patients and dissident doctors and nurses warn us about the impending patient revolution – how health care is so unsafe, of such poor quality and so expensive for us patients...

“The Office” Takes on Primary Care

Not really, but check out this new campaign by the Puget Sound Health Alliance aimed at getting the employees of their purchaser members (businesses and labor union trusts) to make better use of primary care.  These videos* will make you chuckle / guffaw / giggle even...

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