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		<title>Tell Me Your Story</title>
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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>Patients Googling Their Way To Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Google! I may never have deciphered what was wrong with me without the aid of Google search.
In spite of having read the Merck Manual from front to back twice and amassing a small medical library of my own, I have to credit my key breakthroughs in diagnosis to going online and googling specific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=152&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #18: Diagnostic Journey Leads To The Cause of Motility Dysfunction</title>
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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>The Story #8: Search For A New PCP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 31, 2005. Given a long history of gastrointestinal problems and constant lower left abdominal pain , I made an appointment with Dr. Carol Schuffler, a gastroenterologist recommended by Dr. Joyce Hair, my gynecologist. Dr. Schuffler had a small office in an older office building primarily populated with medical offices. I recall how warm it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=135&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 #2: PCP as Pontius Pilate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recommendation of a co-worker, I made an appointment for a full exam with a doctor from her family physician&#8217;s office. Only the newer, younger doctors were taking on new clients, so instead of seeing the co-worker&#8217;s seasoned family doctor, I met with a recent graduate, Dr. Aliza Levine. Doctor&#8217;s notes in my medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=15&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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