How to approach medical management of a life threatening illness

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Nikki J

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This is about CF but the underlying concept is applicable to ALS. I wish there could be a new mind set like the one in the second clinic

The Bell Curve - The New Yorker
 
Atul Gawande is making a good impact in all of medicine. Thanks for the article.
 
What a great read. I agree Nikki, it can and should apply to ALS and many other conditions.
 
Thank you, Nikki, as always, for the valuable information you continue to provide.

This article was genuinely intriguing.

It was uplifting to know that a different-minded approach (which when you think of it, was actually quite common-sensical, and or seemingly shouldn't be that hard to come up with) could make such an enormous difference in the outcomes in the patients' lives.

It was disheartening to feel that this is only at the beginning stages of taking place, apparently. So many patients with so many different diseases could have such amazingly improved outcomes, if this type of strategy in care could just become the norm.

We, all of us, with the various forms of MND, could find true celebration if this were to be the case.

Thank you, again, Laura.
 
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