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AmyT on
August 20, 2010
Anyone else feel like keeping up with reading around the diabetes / health communities online is becoming overwhelming? Yup. And that’s a good thing, because it validates that what we’re all doing here is meaningful. Don’t believe me? Just ask CNN’s big-shot medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, who just published a book called The Empowered Patient (nope, I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list!).
Here’s what I have been reading of late:
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By
AmyT on
February 17, 2010
If you run a diabetes blog, web site, or small organization doing some kind of diabetes advocacy work, you will want to know about this: a new ‘Diabetes Advocates Program‘ that can help you and your work get noticed.
Basically, TuDiabetes founder Manny Hernandez and David Edelman of DiabetesDaily put on their thinking caps after last summer’s Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche. Everyone in attendance was in the same boat: working hard on…
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AmyT on
September 21, 2009
Of all the things I heard at the Transform symposium at the Mayo Clinic last week, there was just one notion that pierced the heart of all this healthcare reform talk, if you ask me. It was the statement by Christi Dining Zuber, Innovation Director at Kaiser Permanente, that healthcare needs to be about compassion rather than “compliance.”
The traditional notion of a doctor’s role was: “you tell people to do stuff, you push them…
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AmyT on
September 15, 2009
Up until now it’s been all about me and my #$%@ chronic illness. That wasn’t so bad, for me. Far tougher is the realization that someone you love — someone who’s been the rock of your existence — may not be so invincible after all. Although nothing truly catastrophic has happened, a little piece of my heart is breaking…
It happened while we were in Germany. My husband came home one day saying he thought…
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Talk about nothing changes! For this week’s trip back in time, I’m reprinting a post from September of 2005 about attempting to navigate the American healthcare system — and what a bumpy ride that is. Just for confirmation that we’re all still struggling with this same baloney, check out #patientsfirst on Twitter. Now, buckle up and enjoy the ride…
Amy’s Tour of Health Plans, aka Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride in Slo-Mo
If I learned…
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