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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>Is Health Care Reform The Lesser of Two Poor Choices?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think anyone knows if government-run or private-run health care is the answer. Both seem to be the lesser of two poor choices for a variety of reasons. Central among the reasons is the lack of focus on patient outcomes (quality of care) and the need to replace the practice of specialists handing off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=222&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Healthcare Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama could gain more support for his proposed health care reforms if the government actually enforced existing laws.
Under our current system, I believe medical insurance companies have vicarious liability for the negligence of their network providers. Calling the insurance companies to the carpet for the negligence of its providers would expose reasons for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=217&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Overview: Replace The Caduceus</title>
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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>
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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>
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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 #12:The SBFT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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 #15: Time Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>The Story #14: Significance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last blog submission revealed how I arrived at my self-diagnosis of a debilitating, systemic bacterial infection, actinomycosis.
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