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Patients rarely describe healing in technological terms. They speak instead about whether someone listened, if their physician remembered them and how their concerns were...

What It’s REALLY Like to Hear the Words: “You Have Cancer”

Stacy Hurt, MHA, MBA - March 20, 2022

In any word association exercise, the word cancer is most often linked with death. Maybe two percent of outliers would say “tumor” or “sick”,...

Theranos’ Biggest Crime is Casting Doubt on Consumer Diagnostics

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - December 6, 2021

One casualty of the Theranos scandal is that the idea of convenient, more accessible, diagnostic blood tests. We need great, consumer-focused, diagnostic care that lead to definitive answers around patients’ risk of disease and the ability to stay on top of chronic conditions.

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