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Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, captured the zeitgeist of the health data rights movement in today’s must-read article, Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’. An e-patients all-star team is quoted in the story: Jen McCabe, Regina Holliday, e-Patient Dave, Alan Viars.
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on Public Q&A: “I received scary test results. What questions should I ask my clinician?”: “Great conversation. It has been my experience as a nurse to have the conversation before the testing. What is the…” May 4, 09:05 on Rare Disease in the NYT: “Captivated is such a good description of how I felt, too. I read the essay once through quickly, then a…” Apr 25, 11:12
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