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Please vote for GlobalCures

by | Sep 27, 2008

Update: voting ends midnight EDT Monday 9/29. Great post Friday on John Halamka’s GeekDoctor blog. It’s about GlobalCures, an entry in MembersProject, an American Express contest that has $2.5 million in prizes for proposals to make a positive change in...

Monique tells why she doesn’t see herself as “e”

by | Aug 7, 2008

I’m delighted to present a guest post from cancer patient Monique Doyle Spencer, whose husband found the henna relief for hand-foot syndrome we mentioned yesterday. She is a stitch. To me she’s about as empowered as they get, but she says she’s...

e-Patient finds henna relief for Hand-Foot Syndrome

by | Aug 6, 2008

Update 8/9/08: Monique posted the detailed instructions she uses at the blog she started for Xeloda side effects. Monique Doyle Spencer, author of the fabulous book The Courage Muscle: A Chicken’s Guide to Living with Breast Cancer, is on Xeloda, and is...

An e-Patient Hero Leaves Us

by | Jul 25, 2008

Most of us know Randy Pausch from his video lecture “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, taped at Carnegie Mellon as part of their “Last Lecture” series. His hope and optimism in light of a crushing diagnosis brought millions up short as they...

E-patients with Agency (or Attitude?)

by | Jul 9, 2008

What are the social and psychological factors that affect how someone is treated — or even their health outcomes? This question has popped up in my reading and in my work quite a bit this week, so I wanted to share what I have learned from three leading...

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