Patient Stories - Revision history

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 * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/02/medicare-cover-infusion-services-patients-homes.html Medicare would only pay for an 84-year-old man's infusion therapy at a nursing home ($15,000) rather than at his home ($1,200).  (2/23/14)]
 * [http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/02/23/how-much-are-misaligned-incentives-in-health-care-costing-tax-payers/ A patient suffering from an infected artificial shoulder] couldn't afford intravenous antibiotics three times a day for six weeks in home. Medicare spent an unnecessary $30,000 on hospitalization and care rather than reimbursing for home care. (2/23/13)
 '''Health Care Professionals As Patients'''

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	'''Depression and Suicide''' <br>		'''Depression and Suicide''' <br>
		+	* [https://www.fastcompany.com/40451951/learning-to-cope-with-clinical-depression-has-made-me-a-better-manager Learning To Cope With Clinical Depression Has Made Me A Better Manager. I’ve gone to great lengths to hide it for most of my career, but eventually I realized I didn’t need to. (8/11/17)]
	* [http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article158742984.html I lost two great personal and professional friends to depression and, ultimately, suicide — Raul Valdes-Fauli and Ervin Gonzalez. Both seemed to have the world in the palms of their hands: loving families, financial security, and professional success as a banker and lawyer, respectively. (6/28/17)]		* [http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article158742984.html I lost two great personal and professional friends to depression and, ultimately, suicide — Raul Valdes-Fauli and Ervin Gonzalez. Both seemed to have the world in the palms of their hands: loving families, financial security, and professional success as a banker and lawyer, respectively. (6/28/17)]

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	'''Opioid Addiction''' <br>		'''Opioid Addiction''' <br>
		+	* [https://khn.org/news/a-long-and-winding-road-kicking-heroin-in-an-opioid-treatment-desert/ A Long And Winding Road of Kicking Heroin In An Opioid ‘Treatment Desert’ (8/11/17)]
	* [https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/16/opioid-overdose-west-virginia-taylor-wilson/ Taylor Wilson’s parents fought for 41 days to get their daughter treatment. They couldn’t stop another overdose (3/16/17)]		* [https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/16/opioid-overdose-west-virginia-taylor-wilson/ Taylor Wilson’s parents fought for 41 days to get their daughter treatment. They couldn’t stop another overdose (3/16/17)]

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 * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/09/cost-benefit-analysis-case-conservative-management-wins.html 70-year-old male with deteriorating congestive heart failure. Costly, aggressive route, could have caused more harm than good, comprising quality of life. (9/20/14)]
 * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/06/cured-result-unacceptable.html Vibrant 68-year-old woman from Haiti. She was always impeccably dressed, loved to talk, and had an incredibly infectious laugh. While the condition was cured, she was not. (6/6/16)]
 '''Loneliness''' <br>

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 '''Community Health Worker''' <br>
 * [http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/headlines-in-health-policy/2017/apr/april-3-2017/high-need-feature-tanya 46-year-old Tanya never went to the doctors until she had no choice. She was diagnosed with hypertension, cirrhosis, asthma, and high blood pressure. Her doctor referred her to community health worker that has really helped Tanya (4/3/17)]
 '''Disability from Stroke''' <br>

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 '''Videos - In Their Own Words'''
 * [http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2017/jun/high-need-patients-personas-videos Annie is living with major chronic conditions, including Type 2 Diabetes, COPD, congestive heart failure, and high blood pressure. She often feels limited in what she can yet avoids asking for help for fear of burdening her family. (6/15/17)]
 '''Widespread Hype Gives False Hope To Many Cancer Patients'''
 * [http://khn.org/news/widespread-hype-gives-false-hope-to-many-cancer-patients/amp/ For Michael Uvanni, hope gave way to crushing disappointment when his brother Jim’s health declined and he died from metastatic melanoma in 2014. (4/27/17)]

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 '''Living Conditions'''
 * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/09/can-patients-get-better-live-homes-tailor-made-disease.html How can patients get better if they live in homes tailor-made for disease? (9/17/16)]
 '''Living With Chronic Pain'''

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 '''Paying For High Cost Treatments''' <br>
 * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tackling-the-financial-toll-of-cancer-one-patient-at-a-time/2016/04/09/c8a85dd8-fb16-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html Scott Steiner is 46-year-old father of six kids that had to struggle to afford high cost cancer treatments. (4/9/16)]
 '''Patient Dialog'''

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 '''Caregivers'''<br>
 * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/01/coordinates-patient-care-maybe-no-one.html Bonnie Friedman describes her frustration coordinating her husband's care over many hospitalizations for serious, sometimes life-threatening, illnesses. (1/20/17)]
 * [http://khn.org/news/caring-for-a-loved-one-at-home-can-have-a-steep-learning-curve/amp/ How the family of 87-year old Ruth Perez's with dementia learned how to take care of their mom (12/12/16)]