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The Other Part of the Fight

My musings on life, healthcare, patient advocacy and all things breast cancer.

Mar 09

Blueprint for Successful Patient Collaboration

By Marianne Gandee, Vice President, Patient Solutions & Alliances, North America Pfizer Oncology In October of 2019, I left a career I loved at a nonprofit oncology advocacy ...

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Feb 23

I Believed I Could, So I Did.

Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, my childhood was spent living about a mile from the palatial Lakeshore Drive estate of Henry Ford II, whose father ...

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Feb 16

Why Breast Cancer Patients Need Pink Fund Now More Than Ever

A few years ago, I worked at a hospital in a rural area on the boarder in between Virginia and North Carolina. I met Anna*, a 38-year-old woman ...

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Feb 10

Growing Old Is A Privilege Denied to Many

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to, you would cry too if it happened to ...

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Feb 02

Someone Has To Go Last

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? This is a question I have been pondering ...

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Jan 26

Is a Patient Advocate, PA a Subject Matter Expert, SME?

Is a Patient Advocate, PA a Subject Matter Expert, SME?  I would argue a resounding YES!  Now let me clarify that I am not talking about paid Certified ...

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Jan 16

The Other America / I Have A Dream

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream where access to ...

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Jan 12

WTF is an FQHC?

I’ve always assumed myself to be fairly educated when it came to health literacy and communication. I received my bachelor’s in journalism from University of Michigan, and gained ...

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Jan 05

Add This to Your List of New Year’s Resolutions

As someone who has been threatening for two decades to write a book, I’m starting out 2023 by writing a weekly blog. The discipline of consistently writing will help ...

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