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A blog about patient engagement in healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping skills with chronic illness, along with some practical ideas and personal strategies

Showing posts with label Dr Victor Montori. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Dr Victor Montori. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Pain: What About Patient Centered Care?

This week I had a hand operation that involved the rearrangement of bones and tendons. In case you have not read much about orthopedic surge...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

What Do You Mean Burden of Care?

Here's an easy to follow definition of disease burden from Wikipedia. It introduces the concept of DALYs in a very easy to understand wa...

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Do we really do what the doctor advises?

I saw my rheumatologist today and the first thing he wanted to know was whether or not I am actually taking the drugs he has prescribed and...

Saturday, 8 June 2013

The Tremendous Effort To Look Normal

At the MedCity ENGAGE Conference recently Dr. Victor Montori made this statement about chronically ill patients. "They look normal beca...

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Anet: I've had rheumatoid arthritis for 30 years. I spent the last 20 working full time in market research. Now health advocacy and the quality of life with chronic illness are major interests. It's great to have time to blog and tweet and go out for lunch.

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