The Stress Involved in Living with a Rare Disease
By Candace Lerman At the end of 2014, I spent four weeks undergoing chemotherapy using the drug Rituxan. However, I didn’t have cancer. I am battling a rare blood disorder
By Candace Lerman At the end of 2014, I spent four weeks undergoing chemotherapy using the drug Rituxan. However, I didn’t have cancer. I am battling a rare blood disorder
By Susan Glod, MD From her vantage point, cost had nothing to do with money. On most days, she struggled to her feet when I entered the room, greeted me
By Eric Funk As a patient with a long history of atypical migraines, I have firsthand experience with the importance of controlling costs of care. I have seen attempts to
By Benjamin Schnapp, MD “Tell me about your mother.” That is always how it begins. There was never quite enough time the last few years, time to put her affairs
By Neel Shah, MD MPP and Dan Michelson, MBA It all started a few years ago with an out-of-the-blue e-mail: “Neel – I saw the work you are doing via
By Tom Peteet, MD Mr. J was as close to a typical sixty year-old patient as possible, wary of doctors and selective in when he took his blood pressure medications.