by Jessie Gruman | Aug 1, 2013
This summer, I am reflecting and writing about what I wish that I had known earlier about getting good care following active cancer treatment, based on my experience with five different cancer diagnoses and what I have learned from others. If you have been diagnosed...
by Jessie Gruman | Jan 17, 2013
(Originally published on the CFAH Prepared Patient Forum January 16, 2013) Sometimes, angry patients and dissident doctors and nurses warn us about the impending patient revolution – how health care is so unsafe, of such poor quality and so expensive for us patients...
by Jessie Gruman | Sep 14, 2011
Continuing the thread of the difficulty of making good decisions about prescription drugs: It appears that many of us think that FDA approval of a drug means safer and better…Not so fast:...
by Jessie Gruman | Sep 6, 2011
Have you followed the long and painful efforts to improve the information prescription drug manufacturers are required to provide us? Really, given that almost half of us in the US take at least one prescription medication daily, you’d think this would be a high...
by Jessie Gruman | Aug 25, 2011
Not really, but check out this new campaign by the Puget Sound Health Alliance aimed at getting the employees of their purchaser members (businesses and labor union trusts) to make better use of primary care. These videos* will make you chuckle / guffaw / giggle even...
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