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    Remember what this is all about

    September 27th, 2007

    by Tony Chen

    All this talk about health care policy, healthcare blogging, and hospitalk, sometimes it's easy to forget that we are talking about real people, real sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, and loved ones.

    Yes, we have to run tight ships financially to ensure the long-term sustainability and advancement of our hospitals. Yes, we need to learn the business of healthcare. Yes, we have to think aggregate in numbers. But let's always remember that we are serving individual people, many who are in the most scaring, vulnerable moments in their lives.

    http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/feature-photography/works/thumbnails/byer02_jpg.jpg

    I ran across this story at Blog, MD about Derek Madsen, a 10-year patient who had a rare childhood cancer. Please take a moment today and go through these 20 gripping Pulitzer prize photos of his journey.

    Also, we've collected a few other patient stories here.

    Comments:

    Comment from: Drew Schulthess [Visitor]
    Powerful stuff....a good reality check.
    Permalink 09/27/07 @ 15:02
    Comment from: Brenda Turner [Visitor] · http://www.outrageoustimes.org
    Thank you for blogging about Health Care Reform! The growing number of uninsured, now at over 47 million, the high cost of insurance and the release of the 2008 presidential candidates health care plans have brought the topic of health care reform to national headlines and prime time news.

    But what about the individual stories of American citizens facing a health care crises today? How do they navigate the broken health care system? At Outrageous Times.org we talk about the issues concerning individuals and small businesses. In addition to reporting on pending legislation and the record profits of pharmaceutical and insurance companies, we address the real life stories -- emergency room care, mental health issues, drug abuse, obesity, preexisting conditions and children's health. By letting our voices be heard-together we can find common sense solutions to reduce health care costs and increase access to quality health care for all.

    Outrageous Times is our monthly grass roots newspaper, dedicated to health care reform now and is distributed to over 20,000 readers in Mercer County, WV and Tazewell County, VA. The web site www.OutrageousTimes.org is a both a local and national health care resource. We would like to invite you and your readers to submit your stories, experiences, observations and opinions to OutrageousTimes.org. Comments posted on OutrageousTimes.org are often reprinted in the Outrageous Times.

    Thanks in advance for your contributing your knowledge to OutrageousTimes.org.

    Sincerely,
    Brenda Turner
    Publisher
    Outrageous Times
    Permalink 09/27/07 @ 18:24

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