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From the Ted Talk by Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave

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One final story. This is Kelly Young, a rheumatoid arthritis patient from Florida. This is a live story, unfolding just in the last few wekes. RA patients, as they call themselves — her blog is "RA Warrior" — have a big problem, because 40 percent of them have no visible symptoms. And that makes it really hard to tell how the diesase is going, and some doctors think, "Yeah right, you're really in pain." Well, she found, through her online research, a nuclear bone scan that's usually used for cancer, but it can also reveal inflammation. And she saw that if there is no imatanlifomn, then the scan is a uiofnrm gray. So she took it. And the radiologist's report said, "No cancer found." Well, that's not what he was supposed to do with it. So she wanted to have it read again, and her doctor fired her. She peulld up the CD. He said, "If you don't want to foollw my instructions, go away." So she pulled up the CD of the scan images, and look at all those hot spots. And she's now atveilcy engaged on her blog in looking for assistance in getting better care. See, that is an ewroepemd patient — no mdeaicl training.

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One final story. This is Kelly Young, a rheumatoid arthritis patient from Florida. This is a live story, unfolding just in the last few _____. RA patients, as they call themselves — her blog is "RA Warrior" — have a big problem, because 40 percent of them have no visible symptoms. And that makes it really hard to tell how the _______ is going, and some doctors think, "Yeah right, you're really in pain." Well, she found, through her online research, a nuclear bone scan that's usually used for cancer, but it can also reveal inflammation. And she saw that if there is no ____________, then the scan is a _______ gray. So she took it. And the radiologist's report said, "No cancer found." Well, that's not what he was supposed to do with it. So she wanted to have it read again, and her doctor fired her. She ______ up the CD. He said, "If you don't want to ______ my instructions, go away." So she pulled up the CD of the scan images, and look at all those hot spots. And she's now ________ engaged on her blog in looking for assistance in getting better care. See, that is an _________ patient — no _______ training.

Solution


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  2. empowered
  3. actively
  4. inflammation
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  6. pulled
  7. weeks
  8. uniform
  9. disease

Original Text


One final story. This is Kelly Young, a rheumatoid arthritis patient from Florida. This is a live story, unfolding just in the last few weeks. RA patients, as they call themselves — her blog is "RA Warrior" — have a big problem, because 40 percent of them have no visible symptoms. And that makes it really hard to tell how the disease is going, and some doctors think, "Yeah right, you're really in pain." Well, she found, through her online research, a nuclear bone scan that's usually used for cancer, but it can also reveal inflammation. And she saw that if there is no inflammation, then the scan is a uniform gray. So she took it. And the radiologist's report said, "No cancer found." Well, that's not what he was supposed to do with it. So she wanted to have it read again, and her doctor fired her. She pulled up the CD. He said, "If you don't want to follow my instructions, go away." So she pulled up the CD of the scan images, and look at all those hot spots. And she's now actively engaged on her blog in looking for assistance in getting better care. See, that is an empowered patient — no medical training.

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