Patient Advocacy

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled “Pink to Black for Metastatic Breast Cancer” In summary, I went back 5 years to a previous post about my feelings about having dedicated breast cancer centers and how my views on the matter...

Five years ago this month I wrote a piece entitled “Who Will be the Next Susan Goodman Komen? Or Nancy Goodman Brinker?” In that post, in part, I wrote “Speaking for myself I think it stems from the amount of funding put towards “breast...

I would add just one point to this excellent advice from Dr. Tangella, CEO, DoveMed -- your digital pathology images as well - these should be as portable as the rest of your medical records! Written by : Krish Tangella MD MBA...

Over the summer a longtime friend asked if I could review some slides for a friend of his, or actually from his friend’s wife. Of course I agreed to do so. He mentioned that she had “metastatic breast cancer” and wanted to make sure the...

I am a big fan of synoptic reports for cancer diagnoses. They allow us to standardize our reporting of tumor site, type, grade stage, size and many other characteristics of the tumor that comprise staging information required for therapy. We...

I recently came across a blog post on KevinMD entitled “Patients are not customers. Here are 6 reasons why” written by Dr. Shirie Leng, an anesthesiologist in Massachusetts. She introduces the post comparing how we purchase goods and...