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Letter to a Patient Advocate

• May 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Health Care Patient Perspective, doctors, health care reform, health-care-reform, patient-perspective, healthcarereform, patientperspective, medical-students, medicalstudents, doctors, patients, clinical-diagnosis, diagnosis, patient-advocate, patientadvocate, healthcare, medical errors, medical malpractice, patient advocate
Tags: Cancidas, clinical-diagnosis, diagnosis, Diane+Rehm, doctors, Health Care Patient Perspective, health care reform, healthcare, infectious-diseases, infectiousdiseases, Jim Moran, Jim Webb, Johns+Hopkins, Mystery Diagnosis, patient advocate, patients, Paul+Auwaerter

The Story #4: The Tooth Root Connection

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Health Care Patient Perspective
Tags: Alan-Peiken, Allan-Morrison, Cigna, clinical-diagnosis, Crantz, CTscans, dentists, diagnosis, Dillon, doctors, Dollard, Donald-Poretz, endocrinologist, endodontist, Eric-Forsbergh, Forsbergh, Frank-Crantz, galactorrhea, health care reform, healthcarereform, Ilchyshyn, infection, infectiousdiseases, Jeffrey-Thorpe, Jonathan-Park, medical students, medicalstudents, microadenoma, Morrison, MRIs, MRSA, Nicholas-Ilchyshyn, oral-surgeon, oralsurgeon, Park, patient advocate, patient perspective, patientadvocate, patientperspective, patients, Peiken, Poretz, primarycare, Reston-Dental-Arts, RestonDentalArts, root canals, root-canal, rootcanal, staph, staphinfection, Thorpe, Wayne-Dollard

The Story #3: The Medical Record Paperweight

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Health Care Patient Perspective
Tags: Cigna, David-Yoho, doctors, Ferrer, health care, health care reform, healthcare, healthcarereform, infectious-diseases, infectiousdiseases, interns, medical students, medicalstudents, Michael-Abidin, Michael-Tsun, patient advocates, patient perspective, patientadvocates, patients, Rosario-Ferrer

The Story #2: PCP as Pontius Pilate

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Health Care Patient Perspective
Tags: Aliza-Levine, autoimmune, autoimmune-disease, Candida, chronic-illness, chronicillness, Cigna, David-Yoho, diagnosis, doctor, doctors, Ferrer, Frederick-Helmkamp, health care, health care reform, healthcare, healthcarereform, Helmkamp, Ignacio, infectious-diseases, infectiousdiseases, Inova-Fairfax-Hospital, InovaFairfaxHospital, interns, Judith-Mechanick, Levine, Mechanick, medical, medical student, medical students, medicalstudents, Michael-Tsun, patient, patient advocates, patientadvocates, patients, PCP, pulmonary-cardiology, RosarioFerrer, Tsun, Virginia-Hospital-Center, yeast, yeast-overgrowth, Yoho