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	<title>My PICC Line &#187; healthcare</title>
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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</description>
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		<title>What to do with all this access?</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/09/what-to-do-with-all-this-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to meet a friend last week I happened upon a car going 20 mph under the listed speed and weaving like he just left happy hour. When passing (and hoping to make eye contact to show my displeasure) it was revealed the offender was too absorbed in his mobile to look up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submit Your Story: Diagnosis&#8230;please?</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/14/submit-your-storydiagnosis-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following story was submitted by a reader: In June, I was rushed to the emergency room with bilateral abdominal pain. I spent twenty-two hours in the ER and there was told I had a malignant mass, gastroenteritis, Crohn’s disease, an ovarian torsion, or most unlikely, appendicitis. Following two inconclusive CAT scans and a sonogram, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two worthwhile essays on healthcare&#8217;s biggest problems</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/07/two-worthwhile-essays-on-healthcares-biggest-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/07/two-worthwhile-essays-on-healthcares-biggest-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Goldhill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In two of the better essays on healthcare, The New Yorker&#8217;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&#8212;a town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing &#8216;Submit Your Story&#8217; to myPICCLine.com</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/30/introducing-submit-your-story-to-mypiccline-com/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/30/introducing-submit-your-story-to-mypiccline-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past three months this blog has been focused on the experience of one person, one patient. Admittedly this offers a limited scope of healthcare. With the addition of  the &#8216;Submit Your Story&#8216; feature, we hope that changes. It&#8217;s no secret that the best way to become truly informed is to be exposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another busy day in the factory</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/23/another-busy-day-in-the-factory/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/23/another-busy-day-in-the-factory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The waiting room is full of us today, anxious people waiting to see our doctor. There are 13 or 14 of us in this room, and in a another one down the hall, 13 or 14 more. This pattern continues on for quite sometime&#8212;this is a big place, like factory big. Before we found ourselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare isn&#8217;t all that efficient</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/16/medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/16/medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader posted a comment awhile back about the hospital experience of her mother, who was just diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Briefly what happened: &#8220;&#8230; the hospital attempted to discharge her. They indicated that she could receive the treatment for aplastic anemia on an outpatient basis. My sister challenged that as being unacceptable based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link PICCs: Healthcare reform, American values and CEO salaries</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/09/link-piccs-healthcare-reform-american-values-and-ceo-salaries/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/09/link-piccs-healthcare-reform-american-values-and-ceo-salaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare reform might not mean reform for some who need it most. Those who make too much to qualify for government subsidies, but aren&#8217;t exactly pulling down huge bucks should have a ton of interest in making sure that changes to the healthcare system ensure their care is affordable. This a well-cited problem in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link PICCs: Media&#8217;s coverage of healthcare, a heart transplant, drinking on the pounds</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/01/link-piccs-medias-coverage-of-healthcare-a-heart-transplant-drinking-on-the-pounds/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/01/link-piccs-medias-coverage-of-healthcare-a-heart-transplant-drinking-on-the-pounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solid discussion here on the media&#8217;s coverage of healthcare reform, and the debate of substantive coverage versus the coverage of the political process. Over the last few months the focus in the United States has been on town hall meetings rather then what proposed health care reform legislation will really mean for Americans and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good read: &#8220;No Cash for medical bills? Bartering pays&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/19/good-read-no-cash-for-medical-bills-bartering-pays/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/19/good-read-no-cash-for-medical-bills-bartering-pays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my days at the clinic it&#8217;s no surprise to see a long line of people awaiting a &#8220;meeting&#8221; with the billing department. Getting sick is expensive and not everybody has great heath insurance, let alone health insurance at all. There are a lot of different groups who have a interest in seeing that those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare the British way</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/18/healthcare-the-british-way/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/18/healthcare-the-british-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we talked about the Canadian healthcare model, of late we&#8217;ve heard more and more about the model in Great Britain. Known as the National Health Service (NHS), it covers all citizens and is entirely publicly funded. The system consumes about 8.4% of the country&#8217;s GDP compared with America&#8217;s 16%. The added [...]]]></description>
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