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	<title>Living with MCL &#187; Health Care</title>
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	<description>The ramblings of a mantle cell lymphoma survivor</description>
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		<title>What do you think about your health care?</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/05/24/what-do-you-think-about-your-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/05/24/what-do-you-think-about-your-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fee-for-service health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for-profit health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the 27% of Americans defined as having had a serious illness, medical condition, injury, or disability requiring a lot of medical care, or who had been hospitalized overnight in the past 12 months, you .............]]></description>
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		<title>A headline for the ages</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/05/20/a-headline-for-the-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 13:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CANCELLED SURGERIES COSTING HOSPITALS MILLIONS
From Anesthesiology News
<blockquote>Between patient no-shows and cancellations on the day of surgery, hospitals are losing millions in revenue each year, researchers have found.......</blockquote>
Astonishing isn't it! I might have even been]]></description>
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		<title>Through the &#8220;Donut Hole&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/04/30/through-the-donut-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donut Hole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ObamaC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Edie&#8217;s free lights are continuing their upward trend, and her doctor has recommended adding Vorinostat (Zolinza) to the mix (4 &#8211; 100 mg tablets per day for two weeks, then off a week). A recently completed clinical trial has shown it to be efficacious when combined with Velcade, and since the Velcade alone hasn&#8217;t been <a href='http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/04/30/through-the-donut-hole/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t legislate morality!</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/04/13/you-cant-legislate-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/04/13/you-cant-legislate-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on drugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think yesterday&#8217;s death of a police chief, 8 days from retirement in New Hampshire, would finally shock everyone to that reality [although I doubt it], and realize what a colossal waste of lives and resources the war on drugs has been for this country. Resources that would be better spent insuring everyone in this <a href='http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/04/13/you-cant-legislate-morality/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not called for-profit health care for no reason</title>
		<link>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/02/20/its-not-called-for-profit-health-care-for-no-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/02/20/its-not-called-for-profit-health-care-for-no-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti depressants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for-profit health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[......regardless of the final outcome, this should be a wake up call to everyone. 

BE SKEPTICAL OF EVERYTHING! (And not just in the health care arena.) Don't be fooled by special interests, who appear authentic and concerned, but are truly only looking out for their best interests, and their bottom lines. ]]></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>
		<comments>http://livingwithmcl.com/2012/01/27/rating-our-health-care-providers/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Pet Peeves]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[US Health Care]]></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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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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