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		<title>What Would You Do? What Others Said.</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/what-would-you-do-what-others-said-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>I Want To Be A Vigilante</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/i-want-to-be-a-vigilante/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to be a vigilante. More than anything. I tried to keep this blog from becoming an outlet for my rants and raves, but yesterday, after meeting yet again more victims disabled unnecessarily by U.S. Health Care, I&#8217;m outraged.
I&#8217;m outraged hearing that a person who isn&#8217;t outwardly bleeding is made to wait 17 hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=232&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #20: The Movie</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/the-story-20-the-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My saga of attempts to get medical care continues with an adventure in film making.
One blog reader suggested that I pursue getting medical care by contacting medical schools, which, she said, revel in using patients as guinea pigs for its students. I have to admit, the thought had crossed my mind on more than one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=228&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Me Your Story</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/tell-me-your-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting my blog about my futile quest for competent medical care in the U.S., dozens of readers have contacted me with similar stories of their own. The stories are heartfelt, sincere and alarming. It&#8217;s as if the chronically ill are living in a silent, forgotten underworld that no one else cares about or can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=159&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #18: Diagnostic Journey Leads To The Cause of Motility Dysfunction</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-story-18-diagnostic-journey-leads-to-the-cause-of-motility-dysfunction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, a group of scientists are said to have solved the age old question, &#8220;Which came first, the chicken or the egg?&#8221; The alleged consensus: the chicken. I ask, &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t the chicken have developed from a fertilized egg?&#8221;
Whatever happened, the concept eludes my grasp. In my mind, the mystery remains unsolved.
I bring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=147&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Overview: Replace The Caduceus</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/blog-overview-replace-the-caduceus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on my experience, I feel the caduceus medical symbol should be replaced with a picture of a physician with his arms crossed over his chest and his index fingers pointing in opposite directions.
With no help forthcoming from the medical community in determining what was wrong with me after three years, I decided to try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=133&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would You Change About Medical Care?</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/what-would-you-change-about-medical-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would approach healthcare delivery like it was a brand new business. Wipe the slate clean. The first order of business would be to design or conceive of the product or service. Let&#8217;s consider outpatient care first. I would design a center in which internists and specialists from various fields worked together to diagnose a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=125&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #10: The Colonoscopy</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/the-story-10-the-colonoscopy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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 #16: The Public Radio Talent Quest</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/the-story-16-the-public-radio-talent-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Next in a series on my quest for competent medical care.)
If I was asked to name the character I most resembled, I&#8217;d have to say Dobie Gillis for how I think. For you Gen-Xers, Dobie was a character in a TV sitcom that aired from 1959 to 1963. During the first season of The Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=111&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #15: Time Out</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll have to forgive me for not blogging every day. I&#8217;m still very, very ill and am doing everything I&#8217;m physically and mentally capable of  to maintain myself, my living environment and deal with creditors, foreclosure, etc.
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