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	<title>My PICC Line &#187; heathcare</title>
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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</description>
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		<title>Massachusetts looks to eradicate fee-for-service care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a prick, and my finger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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