From incurable to “We can now call you cured”: Cheryl Greene’s story
Here’s another true e-patient story from one of our team.
Cheryl Greene is third from the left in the banner at top of this blog. She’s a long-time friend of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson, a board member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, executive producer of DrGreene.com (AMA: “the pioneer physician web site on the Internet”), and oh yeah, wife of Alan Greene MD. And a heck of an e-patient, starting ten years before I ever had a CAT scan.
This stuff matters. These are stories of real lives facing lethal threats. As you read this, try to immerse yourself in the experience of someone who tried for 15 years to get pregnant, gave birth, faced a magnificent and much-longed-for future, and was suddenly told she had months to live.
This is real. And now, like many e-patients, she’s paying it forward.
Cheryl has just passed a phenomenal milestone. Here’s her story, cross-posted from DrGreene.com last month.
E-patient Interview: Keith Schorsch
When Keith Schorsch began suffering from facial paralysis, fatigue, and severe muscular and skeletal pain, eleven doctors failed to identify the cause. Luckily, a friend recognized the symptoms as similar to what she had suffered when she had Lyme disease – and that’s the clue that saved Keith.
Keith turned his experience into a consumer call to action (and a business plan) by founding Trusera.com. Here is his e-patient story…
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