My PICC Line

My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry

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Entries Tagged ‘David Goldhill’

I dare you to understand a hospital bill

Oct.12, 2009 in healthcare

In a David Goldhill essay highlighted here last week, he closes a paragraph with the following: “In case you wonder who a care provider’s real customer is, try reading one of these bills.” Below is a single page from and eight page hospital bill from my first stay in the hospital. On two occasions, I’ve [...]

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Two worthwhile essays on healthcare’s biggest problems

Oct.07, 2009 in Best reads, healthcare

In two of the better essays on healthcare, The New Yorker’s Dr. Atul Gawande and David Goldhill,via the Atlantic Monthly, portray a healthcare system dreadfully disorganized and wasteful. While this is no new discovery, each offers a different perspective (Guwande is a M.D., Goldhill a businessman), and solution. In his trip to McAllen, Texas—a town [...]

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I'm Matt Sheehan. In July 2009, I learned that I was suffering from the blood disease aplastic anemia. What exactly caused it I may never know. What I do know is that for the next few years, I will endure thousands of hospital hours and the bureaucracy and confusion of the U.S. health care industry. I'd like to share my experiences. Please come back often.

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