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Thousands of patients like deBronkart are learning as much online - and from one another - as they are from their doctors. These laypeople are banding together and starting websites to help figure out which practitioners to see and which hospitals to avoid, which clinical trials show promise and which experimental treatments are bunk. But as people take more control of their health care - joining an empowerment movement many are calling Patient 2.0 - plenty of doctors are worried about the quality of the information that is being assessed as well as patients' ability to understand it. Or as Duke neurology professor...
Getting a cancer diagnosis is a stressful and shocking experience. But is it stressful enough to increase a patient's risk of suicide and heart attack...
While it's intuitively true that a cancer diagnosis can cause significant psychological stress and heightened anxiety, the findings underscore the importance of addressing these consequences in the doctor's office, along with the patient's physical disease. Previous studies have shown that traumatic events - the loss of a loved one, for instance, or a natural disaster such as an earthquake - can raise a survivor's risk of a heart event. Although the authors have not directly compared these events to the impact of a cancer diagnosis, they believe the aftermath may be similar. "Any acute stress event, including...
...after the company acquired NeXT - promised to reverse the priorities: our desktops would prioritize the tasks over the tools, the documents over the applications. The user wouldn't launch documents inside an application. They'd just create a document on its own, which would lie there like a surgical patient, and if you needed a specific tool - a little word-processing here or some video-editing there - you just grabbed that tool and started working on the patient in front of you. In the application-centric model, you were constantly lugging organs into other operating rooms and then dragging them...
...game, we kept to our game plan and we didn’t deviate,” Stone said. “It was a tight game for a long time, and so I thought we stuck to our game plan and did a nice job and were patient. And once we got our opportunities, we took advantage of them...