By
MikeH on
October 4, 2012
One particular moment doesn’t stand out about the MedicineX conference at Stanford University this past week. Instead, it was all of the moments!
What I keep coming back to in my mind is the recurring theme of this event: that the voice of the patient is incredibly meaningful, and should be a part of the healthcare process, from beginning to end.
That, IMHO, is was what the three-day MedX conference was all about. A few…
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Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition of Ask D’Mine, our host Wil Dubois (veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) offers some wisdom about insulin’s activity and a question on medical procedures that may not even be needed. Take a read and let us know what you think!
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Lizzie, type 1 from Washington,…
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By
MikeH on
June 28, 2012
All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which just ruled today on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Everyone’s talking about this, and it’s apparently the most widely anticipated Court decision in memory, according to those in the know.
This is about insurance and our society’s desire to pay for well-being. Just one example of why this is so important comes from a study released in mid-June stating more than 26,000 working-age adults…
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By
AmyT on
September 14, 2009
Today I am in Rochester, MN, at the world-famous Mayo Clinic, taking in part in a “collaborative symposium” on health care called Transform.
David Rosenman, a physician who runs the Mayo’s new Center for Innovation, had the idea to gather a bunch of smart, engaged people to exchange ideas on “new models of health care.” This is not just about the relative merits of Obama’s proposal for universal coverage. Rather, it’s about the role of…
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