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		<title>What Would You Do? What Others Said.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The next in a series of blogs on my quest for competent health care.)
What would you do to get treatment for a rare disease treatable with penicillin that seemingly no U.S. doctor is familiar with? What would you do to get treatment now that your funds have been depleted on living expenses, futile doctor visits, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=268&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 12, 2005 Gastroenterologist Dr. Ronald Barkin performed a colonoscopy at Inova Alexandria Hospital. The operative report noted findings of small internal hemorrhoids and notable diffuse inflammatory change with ulceration in the descending colon, the sigmoid colon and rectum. The surgical pathology report confirmed the presence of  lymphocytes, neutrophils and eosinophils within the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=121&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #12:The SBFT</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 5, 2005, I underwent a procedure known as a small bowel follow through (a radiologic examination of the small intestine in which x-ray pictures of the abdomen are taken every 15 to 20 minutes to record the flow of barium as it passes through the small intestines.) During the procedure I was able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=119&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #13: The Diagnosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of occasional visits to a chiropractor, I stopped seeing doctors in October 2005 when I could no longer afford medical insurance. Seeing doctors seemed useless anyway since they couldn&#8217;t figure out what was wrong with me, and the few medicines they prescribed weren&#8217;t helping me get well. I figured if I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=40&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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