The Powerful Patient

Archive Index Topics

Index Chronological - Index by Personalities

Managing Stress

Empowering Yourself

Wellness, and living with a difficult or rare condition

Getting a diagnosis

Healthcare Systems and Insurance

Advocating for yourself

Nutrition

Transplantation

Protecting your Job

Love, Marriage and Children

Travel

Emergency Preparedness

Caregiving

Promoting Research

Africa

• Becoming a Powerful Patient - intro Joyce Graff
• Managing Stress
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from military or ongoing health issues
    • Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds
    • After the Battle Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Managing Our Fear
  • Music to Soothe and Heal
  • Surviving Caregiver Stress
  • Keeping a Journal
  • Blogging: A Mom’s Perspective
  • Living through Chemotherapy
  • How Did You Sleep Last Night?
  • Never be sick again
  • Managing your Genes
  • Drink your Fruits and Veggies!
  • Learning to Control Your Health Risks
  • Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome
  • Anti-Cancer Cooking
  • Laughing Yoga, Laughing More
  • Nutrition for Overall Health
  • Wellness and Sex
  • Managing Pain
  • Doctors Handcuffed on Natural Remedies
  • Chinese and Japanese Acupuncture
  • Bolstering your Health with Nutrients
  • Tai Chi for all - even in a wheelchair
  • Prescription for Love and Loss
  • Worrying - The Worry Wart's Companion
  • Dr. Goopman on Doctors and Faith
  • Cure Your Ailing Will Power
  • Does this Stress Make me Look Fat?
  • How the Biggest Loser makes Millions of Heavy People even Fatter
  • Families using laughter to defuse stress
  • Tennis Star Cliff Richey on Acing Depression
  • Am I Hungry?
  • The Miracle of True Love
  • Got Stress? - Here about the 15 minute Heart Cure
  • How to be sick - making peace with chronic illness
  • The Art of Civil Discussion
  • Laugh Yourself Thin
  • Listening Reflecting Healing
  • Charting a New Course after Tragedy
• Empowering Yourself
  • Attending a Patient/Provider Conference
  • Understanding our Genetic Risks
  • Dealing with Depression
  • Living with Disability
  • Genetic Alliance
  • Learning to Control Your Health Risks
  • Fitness for your Brain
  • Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome
  • Which Presidential Candidate has the better plan for health care?
  • Building Your Health Care Team
  • Family Health Information Center
  • Is Your Home Ready for Emergencies?
  • Medical Tips from the Inside
  • The Art of Engaging Physicians
  • Creating a Patient Support Organization
  • Competitive Surfer Jesse Billauer regains quality of life
  • For Rape Victims, it's like the Old West
  • Rodeo in Joliet, a saga of survival against all odds
  • Inspire yourself - get support on the internet
• Wellness, and Living with a difficult or rare condition
  • Unbreak Your Health
  • Befriended her Cancer and Healed Herself
  • Laughing Yoga, Laughing More
  • Nutrition for Overall Health
  • Wellness and Sex
  • Doctors Handcuffed on Natural Remedies
  • Never be sick again
  • Bolstering your Health with Nutrients
  • Tai Chi for all - even in a wheelchair
  • Dr. Goopman on Doctors and Faith
  • Cure Your Ailing Will Power
  • Solve Chronic Paul Problems Quickly
  • Is "Clean Living" to blame for Allergies?
  • What does the new Health-Care Law Mean to You?
  • Got Stress? - Here about the 15 minute Heart Cure
  • Sleep disturbance and cancer treatment
  • How to be sick - making peace with chronic illness
  • Pets Have Healing Powers
  • Help your Immune System to Treat and Beat Cancer
  • Wellness: heart, brain, and nervous system in harmony
  • Natural Ways to Beat the Flu
  • Womenopause - Feeling good about Menopause
  • Could Sherman's stroke have been prevented?
  • Pain is Essential for Good Health
• Getting a Diagnosis
  • Healing Depression and Bipolar Disorder without Drugs
  • Abbey Meyers, President of NORD
  • It Runs in the Family, Cathy Sherman, BHD
  • Mary Nathan and Dr. Pramad Mistry (example: Gaucher's Disease)
  • Understanding the Challenge (example: pheochromocytoma)
  • Pitfalls on the Road to Diagnosis (example: Lyme Disease)
  • Genetic Alliance
  • The Silent Disabilities: Brain Development and Injury
  • After the Battle Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Identifying and Recovering from Stroke
  • Safety and Improving Outcomes for Patients
  • Emergency Preparedness ID
  • Hunting Pre-Cancerous Cells in the Esophagus
  • Family Health Information Center
  • Preventing and Managing Diabetes
  • The Art of Engaging Physicians
  • Creating a Patient Support Organization
  • Why am I always sick?
  • Dealing with Inconclusive DNA Testing
  • Hearing and Depression
  • Dr. Goopman on Doctors and Faith
  • Coordinated Clinical Care
  • Connecting Hair Loss and Enlarged Prostate?
  • Helping doctors find the right diagnosis
  • Protection from Radiation Imaging
  • Struggling to get a diagnosis
  • Efficient storing and sharing of imaging scans
  • Pets Have Healing Powers
  • Diagnosing VHL in Brazil
  • Menopause and PCOS: Talking about Women's Health
  • Fibroids and skin bumps - what do they have in common?
  • Open Mike!
• Health Care Systems and Insurance
  • Looking at South Africa's healthcare system - 1
  • Looking at South Africa's healthcare system - 2
  • Legal constraints on doctors in the U.S.
  • Safeguarding Patient Safety
  • Which Presidential Candidate has the better plan for health care?
  • After the Battle Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Safety and Improving Outcomes for Patients
  • Holiday Wish List – Health Care for All
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Healthcare and the Stimulus Act
  • Improving Patient Care
  • Junk Insurance
  • Medical Tips from the Inside
  • Nine Healthy Months
  • Heroic Acts in Humble Shoes: Nurses tell their stories
  • Paying for Health Care
  • Comparative Effectiveness Medicine
  • Helping doctors find the right diagnosis
  • Health Care for All - Fact or Fantasy
  • What does the new Health-Care Law Mean to You?
  • Health Care in World Cities
  • Having Surgery in Brazil - Medical Tourism
  • Developing Local Medical Resources
• Teamwork for Health - Advocating for yourself and others
• Befriended her Cancer and Healed Herself
• Dealing with Depression
• Carol advocates for her son
• Nechama advocates for her infant daughter
• Fran serves as health care proxy for Lisa
• Fantastic Frank R. Johnson empowers himself and others
• Teaming up with your Primary Care Physician
• Genetic Alliance
• The Silent Disabilities: Brain Development and Injury
• Fitness for your Brain
• Which Presidential Candidate has the better plan for health care?
• After the Battle Post-Traumatic Stress
• Safety and Improving Outcomes for Patients
• Holiday Wish List – Health Care for All
• Building Your Health Care Team
• Family Health Information Center
• Conquering the Game of Life
• International VHL Day! and the Kids' Handbook
• Medical Tips from the Inside
• The Art of Engaging Physicians
• Creating a Patient Support Organization
• Surviving Surgery
• DeMystifying Shock Therapy for Depression
• Stay away from this on the holidays (Hint: it isn't alcohol)
• 10 Mistakes every Patient Makes and How to Fix Them
• One in 17 Americans will develop Lung Cancer
• Nutrition
  • Unbreak Your Health
  • Befriended her Cancer and Healed Herself
  • Energy, Inflammation, and Health
  • Food for Health
  • Food Matters Too
  • Never be sick again
  • Managing your Genes
  • Drink your Fruits and Veggies!
  • Learning to Control Your Health Risks
  • Anti-Cancer Cooking
  • Nutrition for Overall Health
  • Preventing and Managing Diabetes
  • Doctors Handcuffed on Natural Remedies
  • Trouble Losing Weight?
  • Bolstering your Health with Nutrients
  • Why am I always sick?
  • Nourishing Hope for Autism
  • Cure Your Ailing Will Power
  • Healing and Strengthening your Heart
  • Spices to Stall Breast Cancer
  • Does this Stress Make me Look Fat?
  • How the Biggest Loser makes Millions of Heavy People even Fatter
  • Raw Foods for Healing and Health
  • Mental Health, Naturally
  • Am I Hungry?
  • Laugh Yourself Thin
  • Eat Right and Thrive!
  • Eat to Live!
  • Obesity Action Coalition
  • Healing Depression and Bipolar Disorder without Drugs
• Transplantation
  • The Perfect Gift: Kidney Transplant
  • Appreciating Kidneys
  • Advances in Kidney Transplantation
  • The Gift that Heals
  • Kidney Dialysis, Shades of Life
  • Maximizing Kidney Transplantation: the Road Forward
• Protecting Your Job
  • Reasonable Accommodation
  • Genetic Alliance
• Love, Marriage, and Children
  • Planning the Marriage
  • Protecting your Reproductive Rights
  • Strengthening your Fertility
  • Learning about Joy from my Son with Downs
  • Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid!
  • Wellness and Sex
  • Prescription for Love and Loss
  • Nine Healthy Months
  • Communicating with your children
  • Growing up with a Handicap
  • Hope for Women with Recurrent Miscarriage
  • The Secret to Smarter Kids
  • The Mystery of Risk
  • Husband's New Endeavor - Advice for Gifford's Recovery
• Travel
• Long-distance air and train travel
• Staying healthy through your travels
• Traveling in South Africa
• Emergency preparedness
  • Medical Alert devices for people with rare diseases
  • Emergency Preparedness ID (Emergentag)
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Is Your Home Ready for Emergencies?
• Caregiving
  • Taking Care of Aging Baby-Boomers
  • Special Needs Children
  • Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid!
  • Caring for aging parents, negotiating solutions
  • Exercises for people with Alzheimer's
  • Taking Care of Harry
  • A Heartbeat Away, Fred Johnson
  • Surviving Caregiver Stress, Eve
  • Keeping a Journal
  • Fitness for your Brain
  • Learning about Joy from my Son with Downs
  • Finding Your Philosophy of Care
  • Nourishing Hope for Autism
  • Growing up with a Handicap
  • My Dog Has Fallen and He Can't Get Up!
  • Advice for Caregivers
  • Husband's New Endeavor - Advice for Gifford's Recovery
  • Courage Comes in Many Forms
• Promoting Research
  • Orphan Drug Development
  • Speeding Research on lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
  • How Patients can help promote research
  • Which Presidential Candidate has the better plan for health care?
  • New Antibody Therapy to Fight Cancer
• Africa
  • Long-Distance Travel
  • The Healthy Traveler
  • Our Visit to South Africa
  • Conversation with Markus

The Powerful Patient - index by Topics - index by Personalities - Chronologically