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	<description>The ramblings of a mantle cell lymphoma survivor</description>
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		<title>Rating US health care providers</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/01/27/rating-our-health-care-providers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My MCL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[why do we even try to rate health care providers? I for one have never been a fan of health care provider ratings, because it ]]></description>
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		<title>The Downside to Canadian Health Care</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/12/30/the-downside-to-canadian-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/12/30/the-downside-to-canadian-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Joseph Conner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can it really be called a downside? According to Joseph M. Connors, MD, Clinical Professor and Director of the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, in an article in the ASCO Post, the downside to Canadian health care is We [the Canadian health care system] don’t get to give patients treatments <a href='http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/12/30/the-downside-to-canadian-health-care/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deep thoughts [AKA A little rant]</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/11/10/deep-thoughts-aka-a-little-rant/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/11/10/deep-thoughts-aka-a-little-rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My MCL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Institute of Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking last night (I do that whenever I have trouble sleeping), and I've come to the realization, in the nearly 10 years since my diagnosis with MCL (when I was personally awoken to the issue of cancer), there has been a lot of research done, and too many to fathom clinical trials performed, yet there has been very little]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for my colonography</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/10/02/preparing-for-my-colonography/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/10/02/preparing-for-my-colonography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My MCL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CT Scan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlarged spleen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, that isn&#8217;t a mistake in the title. Because of my enlarged spleen (which can get in the way of the scope), and the potential problems as a result of that, my doctor has obliged my request for a colonography in lieu of the standard colonoscopy. The only advantage to a colonography being, I won&#8217;t <a href='http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/10/02/preparing-for-my-colonography/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve all been brainwashed</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/09/27/weve-all-been-brainwashed/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/09/27/weve-all-been-brainwashed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brainwashed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everything we've ever been taught, or told, our entire belief system, has been designed with one thing in mind, and that is to control our every action. From the ideas of home ownership and raising a family, to the necessity]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Truth or fiction?</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/04/23/truth-or-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2011/04/23/truth-or-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monty Python]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain said: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

While many of you may label this as fiction, and]]></description>
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		<title>Summer has finally arrived</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/09/27/summer-has-finally-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/09/27/summer-has-finally-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[My MCL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donut Hole]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kaiser Permanente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first sat down this morning, I had every intention of writing a political rant.

I was pissed off because..............

But then I thought]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunately, &#8220;it&#8217;s always something&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/04/21/unfortunately-its-always-something/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/04/21/unfortunately-its-always-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AS9100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh well, I guess I'd better start getting use to this, now that I'm working for a BIG company. Useless time spent in meetings preventing me from completing the work that needs to be completed to produce the products our customers want.]]></description>
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		<title>Another anniversary, come and gone</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/04/03/another-anniversary-come-and-gone-2/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/04/03/another-anniversary-come-and-gone-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My MCL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it's been 8 years [a year and 8 days to be exact] since my diagnosis with Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), and I barely even realized it.

Even to this day, it's hard for me to comprehend the fact I was diagnosed]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The lunacy we call our health care system</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/03/18/the-lunacy-we-call-our-health-care-system/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2010/03/18/the-lunacy-we-call-our-health-care-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaiser Permanente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Advantage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's one that will go down in the annals of US health care history, and is one, if you know how much contempt I have for our current system, boggles even my mind. Read on..........]]></description>
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