Stigma

e-patient stories, Why I joined, Why PM

Meredith Gould: Why Go Public Now About My Fibro?

Kathleen O'Malley | June 16, 2011

Guest blogger Meredith Gould is on Twitter as @meredithgould and @HealthFaith. Over a year ago, I agreed to write about my personal experience with fibromyalgia for a new health and wellness site. The piece wasn’t going to be published for a while and although I was comfy with what I’d written, I was in no [...]

Woman Loses Health Insurance Due to Facebook

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | November 21, 2009

Imagine a world you live in where every insurance offering is accompanied by a creepy set of Big Brother-like ongoing investigations into your life. Everything will be used as evidence against you. Yes, even your Facebook profile. That world is here. Well, not right here, but up north in Canada. Yes, a Canadian insurance company [...]