The BBC reports the story of Daniel Sencier, a prostate cancer patient who complained about delays in scheduling surgery at Cumberland Infirmary in the UK. Sencier blogged about his experience in the interest of improving care, and for his trouble received a legal threat from the British National Health Service. Read the full story here.
Kathleen O'Malley
Kathleen O'Malley has served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Participatory Medicine since 2010. Before that, she worked as an acquisitions editor and managed the Publishers’ Circle journal licensing program at Medscape for many years. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2008 and continues to thrive, thanks in great part to a caring group of surgeons, physicians, nurses, social workers and fellow survivors who all practice participatory medicine.
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link wouldn’t work for me, try http://danielsencier.blogspot.com/ for his blog.