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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</description>
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		<title>Submit Your Story: Don&#8217;t even think of giving up</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/15/in-their-own-wordsdont-even-think-of-giving-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of myPICCLine.com&#8217;s readers are those who have themselves been, or had family or friends diagnosed with aplastic anemia (AA). There isn&#8217;t much patient perspective information out there, deciding against sharing the stories or wise words others have passed along would be a disservice to the entire community. Below is a recently received e-mail. &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the healthcare system learns from its&#8217; mistakes</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/27/when-the-healthcare-system-learns-from-its-mistakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a walk around a hospital and more than a few patients will report a medical error horror story that is either responsible for their ailment or has complicated their ailment exponentially. Perhaps most frustrating to patients and families is the system rarely offers full, &#8220;this is entirely our fault&#8221; apologies, even in some of [...]]]></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>Massachusetts looks to eradicate fee-for-service care</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/19/massachusetts-looks-to-eradicate-fee-for-service-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/19/massachusetts-looks-to-eradicate-fee-for-service-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>Out of the hospital and happy about it&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/18/out-of-the-hospital-and-happy-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home. ATG/horse serum completed, moving onto the next chapter. The doctors tell me we&#8217;ll have a good idea if the immunosupressive treatment is working in 120 days from first day of treatment, Tuesday, July 14.  Fours days down 116 to go&#8230; Take home message from five days in a hospital: Confinement sucks, never stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 23 year old who can&#8217;t file his own toe nails</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/16/a-23-year-old-who-cant-file-his-own-toe-nails/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/07/16/a-23-year-old-who-cant-file-his-own-toe-nails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 3 a.m. in the 5th floor of the hospital I&#8217;ve called home for the last three days.  It&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s quiet andI have to make a run to the bathroom. But I can&#8217;t. My medication leaves me in an altered state of mind, it leaves me dizzy. If I fall I could bleed, my body doesn&#8217;t have much blood to spare. I press [...]]]></description>
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