Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frankt co-wrote an excellent article about peer-to-peer health care in The New York Times today. An excerpt: In an ideal world, when we are faced with a new health problem, a clinician is available to sit down and address all our questions and anxieties about the condition and its treatment. […]
breast cancer
Ribbons, ribbons, everywhere
Peggy Orenstein‘s article, “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” is worth one of your precious NYTimes.com chits (unless, of course, you’re a subscriber, in which case you have hopefully already devoured it). But don’t just take my word for it, read this post by Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network — the bloggers […]
Stress: the New Normal for Cancer Patients?–Susannah Fox
Deborah Bell is actively involved in cancer advocacy and manages several online communities for cancer patients, their families, and their friends, having been an ACOR listowner for 11 years, and a listmember for 13. She contributed the following essay: I know a 15-year breast cancer survivor who was just diagnosed with a recurrence in the […]
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