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Article: The top 10 ways the internet is changing health care I.T.(Industry professionals play by new rules as the Internet leads them to create a new model.)
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Steve Dunn was diagnosed with kidney cancer in June of 1988. He was told he could live up to three years-if he was lucky.
Dunn was not content to rely on luck, though. Instead, he pored over the medical literature, launched an extensive search for a promising clinical trial, and contacted family, friends and acquaintances to uncover wherever possible firsthand information about cancer. The result? He found the treatment he needed-and he is in good health today.
"I continue to enjoy the wonder and privilege of living," he says. "But I am outraged by what I had to go through to get highly promising, life-saving treatment. Most patients with advanced ...