Comments on: What ovarian cancer can teach us about medicine, as a whole

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:34:00 +0000

I wasn’t diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome until I was in my late 40s, and that was only because my doctor was an osteopath and tuned in to those kinds of things. And yet, I have dozens of major symptoms, none of which had an explanation until that point.

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:07:00 +0000

Not sure if boingboing already posted on this, but there’s a company called MetaMed http://metamed.com/ that, for $5,000, will actually do a literature search/research report to find treatments for specific patients based on the latest and best available evidence, and refer you to doctors capable of carrying them out. I have no ties whatsoever to MetaMed, but it is amazing what we know can be done and has been done, that no one is doing.

By: chadmulligan

chadmulligan — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:16:00 +0000

This is precisely what happened to my mother in 2007, who was under intensive treatment for ovarian cancer until she suffered a chemotherapy-related stroke, went into a coma, and died. Even her obn-gyn did not realize that she had cancer until after it had metastasized.

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:03:00 +0000

The internet, mediated by expert systems and interfaces like Watson, can bring evidence-based medicine to the common mortal, thereby rendering him/her less at the drop of a hat mortal.