Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer (And What Healthcare Can Learn from It)
"There's something in your lung."With those words Dave deBronkart began an unwanted odyssey: he had metastatic kidney cancer, spread silently throughout his body. Online, he read that his median survival time was 24 weeks.Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pigis 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 healhealthcare.Advance praise:"In my list of greatest personal reads.""Was it my cheering or tears, the intimacy of the story, the caring nature of the community, the power of his vision, or just my awe of his guts? I suspect it was for all of those reasons and more that Dave's book now ranks in my list of greatest personal reads."-- James B. Conway, MS, FACHE, adjunct faculty member of the Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)"Listen up to e-Patient Dave. A must-read.""If you want to be an empowered patient - and you should - listen up to 'e-Patient Dave.' His lessons on participatory medicine can save your life just as I believe they saved his. Dave's story has inspired me, and I'm sure it will inspire you. Dave's a pioneer in the empowered patient movement, and Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig is a must-read for anyone who wants to take charge of their healthcare."-- Elizabeth Cohen MPH, CNN Senior Medical CorrespondentAuthor,The Empowered Patient(Random House)"Required reading for patients and doctors""Dave embodies the idea that the patient is the most underutilized resource in medicine. His spirit, wisdom, and fearlessness are contagious. This book is required reading for patients and doctors, to learn how we can work together to make health care better."-- Roni Zeiger, MD, Chief Health Strategist, Google"An enormous impact on medicine""There is no doubt that Dave has made an enormous impact on medicine. He has been featured in Time and US News, testified in Washington, DC and now his wisdom and advice are available in this book to anyone facing a serious disease."-- Kent Bottles, MD, President, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement