Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer (And What Healthcare Can Learn from It)

Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer (And What Healthcare Can Learn from It)
Dave deBronkart (Author), Daniel Z. Sands (Introduction), Paul F. Levy (Introduction), Matthew Holt (Introduction)
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Lung Cancer

“There’s something in your lung.” With those words Dave deBronkart began an unwanted odyssey: metastatic kidney cancer had spread silently throughout his body. Online, he read that his median survival time was 24 weeks. Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pig is Dave’s story in his own words: excerpts from his cancer journal and later writings as he discovered the e-patient movement – “Empowered, Engaged, Equipped, Enabled” – and became its best-known blogger, speaker, and government policy advisor. The true story of “e-Patient Dave” will inspire you and fill you with a sense that a new world is beginning, a world in which empowered patients partner with medical professionals, to truly help heal healthcare.

• Rank: #498432 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .51" w x 5.98" l, .78 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

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""There's something in your lung."With those words Dave deBronkart began an unwanted odyssey: metastatic kidney cancer had spread silently throughout his body. Online, he read that his median survival time was 24 weeks. Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pig is Dave's story in his own words: excerpts from his cancer journal and later writings as he discovered the e-patient movement Empowered, Engaged, Equipped, Enabled and became its best-known blogger, speaker, and government policy advisor. The true story of e-Patient Dave will inspire you and fill you with a sense that a new world is beginning, a world in which empowered patients partner with medical professionals, to truly help heal healthcare.File Size: 718 KBPrint Length: 260 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: UnlimitedPublisher: Changing Outlook Press (September 1, 2010) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B0041T4FKW"