Musings on The State Of Health Care in The United States

(originally posted after the N&O article came ...

2009-08-05T11:33:07.454-07:00

(originally posted after the N&O article came out) Joanne, I read the article in today's N&O. First I want to thank you for what your company is working on, to help fix our healthcare system, which we so desparately need. I, too, have gone from one specialist to another hoping to find out & remedy what has been causing my pain, fatigue, GI problems, migraines, etc. Currently I'm unable to eat much of anything & am getting weaker by the day. Could you please, please write a follow-up to your blog posting in June when you told the first part of your journey to get diagnosed & treated? I live in Cary, have been to many doctors in the Triangle & desparately need to know what to try next. Sincerely, A Fellow Sufferer

It's nice to be able to say such things, and y...

2009-07-27T12:40:51.477-07:00

It's nice to be able to say such things, and you could be a politician saying these things, but then you'd be in the Green Party (gp.org) and your chances of folks being able to vote for you would be slim due to ballot access laws, but that's a separate issue.

We just had a panel discussion, in Durham, NC, last Friday on single-payer healthcare and reforms such as you mention here.

I would like to assist with this project and am still in Durham for another 24 hours (leave Tuesday 5pm). If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate the opportunity to chat.

210-471-1791

kat

Joanne, I read the article in today's N&O....

2009-07-23T16:58:00.811-07:00

Joanne, I read the article in today's N&O. First I want to thank you for what your company is working on, to help fix our healthcare system, which we so desparately need. I, too, have gone from one specialist to another hoping to find out & remedy what has been causing my pain, fatigue, GI problems, migraines, etc. Currently I'm unable to eat much of anything & am getting weaker by the day. Could you please, please write a follow-up to your blog posting in June when you told the first part of your journey to get diagnosed & treated? I live in Cary, have been to many doctors in the Triangle & desparately need to know what to try next. Sincerely, A Fellow Sufferer

Do you by chance have Chronic Lyme Disease? Pleas...

2009-07-06T17:55:48.513-07:00

Do you by chance have Chronic Lyme Disease? Please come over and check out my blog. My husband works at Red Hat so the article that WRAL did on a Former Red Hat Exec sparked my interest. I scanned it quickly and saw "On a personal note: my mother, my husband and myself have gone years without proper diagnoses of chronic and acute illnesses that led to failing ...." I was immediately intrigued because it sounded like my story with Lyme Disease.

Jennifer living in Johnston County.

Joanne, It is so good to see an experienced IT ex...

2009-06-17T10:47:01.457-07:00

Joanne,

It is so good to see an experienced IT executive take on a mission to fix Healthcare. Its is the one industry in the US that has puzzled me the most as a foreigner who lives here. This country is efficient and world leader in almost all markets. Health is so fundamental for everything else, yet healthcare is so neglected, disorganized, inefficient...just wrong.

Doctors are incented to treat people as transactions. Most of the patient money goes to paperwork! Arghhhh. Let's burn the Hippocratic Oath in public.

Its about time for smart people to take notice and fix this mess!

Ivelin