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In Defense of Healthcare Reform

• May 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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The Story #17: The Religion of Diagnosis

• January 30, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Health Care Patient Perspective, health-care-reform, patient-perspective, healthcarereform, patientperspective, medical-students, medicalstudents, doctors, patients, clinical-diagnosis, diagnosis, patient-advocate, patientadvocate
Tags: Actinomycosis, clinical-diagnosis, colonoscopy, diagnosis, doctors, health care reform, healthcare, healthcare-patientperspective, healthcarereform, infectious-diseases, medical student, medicalstudents, patient perspective, primarycare

What Would You Change About Medical Care?

• December 17, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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The Story #9: Hypochondria v. Multi-symptom Disease

• November 12, 2008 • 1 Comment

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Tags: doctors, health care reform, medical students, patient advocates, patient perspective, patients

The Story #6: Bodily Mechanics 101

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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The Story #5: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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The Story #4: The Tooth Root Connection

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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The Story #3: The Medical Record Paperweight

• November 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

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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