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Divided We Fail

The television commercials are captivating: How ordinary people – many of them “Real Americans” in Sarah Palin’s terms – find themselves with insufficient insurance coverage or no insurance to cover a medical event. There are more than 40 million Americans like this, and it is a situation we have to solve in the near-term.

So [...]

The Power of Meeting in Person

When I was diagnosed with leukemia in 1996 I knew nothing about the disease except that it was deadly. I also didn’t know anyone with the condition, chronic lymphocytic leukemia. So, with help from a neighbor, I went on the Internet, found the right listerv on www.acor.org, and started corresponding with people with my condition [...]

A Weekend of Health Lessons

It started on the flight from Seattle to Santa Barbara, California the other morning. The woman sitting next to me shared that she was flying down to visit her ailing 88-year-old father who was being admitted to hospice. Up until recently, she explained, he was a very vibrant senior – a former IRS accounting expert [...]

How Breast Cancer Overshadows Others

Let me start by saying a diagnosis of breast cancer can be terrifying. But so is a diagnosis of lung cancer, or leukemia, or multiple sclerosis.

So here we are in October again – Breast Cancer Awareness Month – and the world is turning pink. Pink ribbons, pink yogurt, and this summer we had pink [...]