My PICC Line

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

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Entries Tagged ‘heathcare’

Massachusetts looks to eradicate fee-for-service care

Jul.19, 2009 in healthcare

We’ve talked about fee-for-service healthcare as being one of the the many current practices in need of reform, according to the Boston Globe, Massachusetts will be the first state to attempt to roll with it. The proposal will replace current compensation protocol with a global payment, where care will be issued by a network of doctors who will be rewarded [...]

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a prick, and my finger

Jul.09, 2009 in healthcare

By now its no news that I have a PICCLine in my right arm. But yesterday it became the key player in another example of mindless protocol in healthcare. With healthy quantitites of blood being drawn at least three times a week, without the PICCLine I would be subjected to a phemonenal quantity of needle sticks. So, its [...]

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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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