My PICC Line

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

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Entries Tagged ‘Mayo Clinic’

Mayo Clinic explains Bone Marrow Transplant

Dec.09, 2009 in Personal

This Mayo Clinic video highlights the experiences of one leukemia survivor who underwent an autologous stem cell transplant, which means the cells used in transplant were her own. For those with aplastic anemia this is not an option, instead they must undergo and allogeneic transplant—-bone marrow(where stem cells that  give rise to blood cells are [...]

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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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