Cure vs. Care
How care teams help patients come to terms with adverse health news Two and a half years ago, Yvette Lamphier was not feeling well. Of all the possibilities going through her mind of what it could be, cancer was the last. When she received the call from her doctor at work, she broke down in […]
Patient Portal Ethics
What happens when you find out your diagnosis from a patient portal, instead of from your doctor? For more than a year, my mom suffered from a persistent, baffling cough. Two negative bronchoscopy procedures and several imaging scans later, her doctors still couldn’t figure out why she was coughing. Her pulmonologist scheduled an exploratory biopsy. […]