| Contents |
Three introductory essays -- Prolog: four early lessons in patient empowerment -- E-Patient precedents -- The first four weeks (and where the title comes from) -- "There's something in your lung" -- Facing death, with hope -- Surgery -- Participating in my care online -- First round of interleukin -- The web is changing heathcare -- Returning to work, mastering mobility -- Whose cancer is it, anyway? -- "Break a leg" -- It's official, I'm a responder! -- Understanding the statistics we're told -- Interleukin, round 2 -- When I leave the world behind -- Recovery -- In search of a new life -- Patient Dave becomes e-Patient Dave -- Epilog: a blogger, "just a patient," bends the course of national policy -- Appendix A: e-Patient white paper -- Appendix B: Thoughts on statistics and medical evidence -- Appendix C: Finding online support groups. |
| Abstract |
"'There's something in your lung.' With those words Dave deBronkart began an unwanted odyssey: metastatic kidney cancer had spread silently throughout his body. Online, he read that his median survival time was 24 weeks. Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pig is Dave's story in his own words: excerpts from his cancer journal and later writings as he discovered the e-patient movement - 'Empowered, Engaged, Equipped, Enabled' - and became its best-known blogger, speaker, and government policy advisor. The true story of 'e-Patient Dave' will inspire you and fill you with a sense that a new world is beginning, a world in which empowered patients partner with medical professionals, to truly help heal healthcare."--Publisher's description. |
