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I Wish I’d Known Earlier…I Still Need a Primary Care Provider Since Most Headaches Aren’t Brain Tumors
This article originally appeared on The Center for Advancing Health, Prepared Patient Blog
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Chronic Conditions Source Type: blogs

The Op-Ed: Entering The Golden Age Of Big Data
As drug development and diagnostics increasingly converge, the advent of personalized medicine is increasing all the time. Of course, we are not quite there yet, but the advent of electronic medical records and the genome are inching us closer all the time. But this poses challenges, of course, and Ted Driscoll, who heads the digital healthcare team at Claremont Creek Ventures, enthuses over the possibilities… One of the interesting facts we live with today is that most of the diseases we confront are largely because of our success at lifespan extension and simultaneous increase in per capita food production. It’s ...
Source: Pharmalot - February 20, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized companion diagnostics Electronic Medical Records Genomes Personalized Medicine Source Type: blogs

“I Hate You Chronic Pain!”
There are some days in this way of life one just has to speak the ugly side of truth. It’s isn’t always pretty. I sometimes believe after the many years I’ve been writing this blog, some of my readers think I’m Little Mary Sunshine ; I assure you, I am not. We often find ourselves in one particularly pitiable state I like to call, “My life is worse than your life.” It’s only human of us to feel that way but it is most definitely a dead end road but a path we occasionally drive down. Life is hard enough for the jolly and the totally healthy but for those of us who face pain each day of our lives, usually in ...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - February 14, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Sue Falkner-Wood Tags: Pain Management chronic pain and emotional health chronic pain and forgiveness Source Type: blogs

More cliff news
Finally I caught up with my oncologist yesterday. She could still barely talk after being out with the flu but I had called after I waited nearly a week. I saw her nurse practitioner on Monday and called after lunch on Friday. I thought that was long enough to leave me dangling on the Femara cliff.Last August when I saw her, she was all set to take me off Femara at this visit. We talked about it so I could emotionally prepare for the cliff of the end of breast cancer treatment. I did stress over it, think about it, whine about it, and otherwise cope maturely.When I went to my appointment on Monday she was out with the stom...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: test results osteoporosis frustration breast cancer treatment Source Type: blogs

The cliff moved
Yesterday I had an appointment with my medical oncologist to finalize me going off Femara (after 5 1/2 years of hot flashes - jealous?). I have been debating/stressing/agonizing over this for a few weeks or months. I expected to have the big conversation yesterday.I was wrong.My oncologist's two children shared their stomach flu with their mother. Apparently she started vomiting as she drove to the hospital. I saw one of her nurse practitioners who I had never seen before instead.She was very nice and remarked about my lengthy medical background (it is now at a level where doctors and other medical personnel comment on it)...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: oncologist medical research doctor appointments Source Type: blogs

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