MyHopeSpace Partners with Patient Power

by admin on December 17, 2010

Patient Power Player

MyHopeSpace has recently partnered with Patient Power®, a respected medical program for patients featuring talk-show interviews with Cancer experts and patients, interviewed by Patient Advocate and Medical Journalist, Andrew Schorr.

 The new Patient Power player can be accessed via the MyHopeSpace.com website. Our facebook page and here by clicking here Click Here to Launch the Patient Power® Player.  More content and stories will be added as time goes on.  We are extremely excited to be able to provide you with this library of information and very happy to have the opportunity to work the great people at Patient Power.

About Patient Power®:

Since 2005 Patient Power has been a leader in producing informative, accurate and educational podcasts across a broad range of medical topics. We have produced more than 2000, hosted by Andrew Schorr, leukemia survivor and respected medical journalist and patient advocate.

Patient Power® is a service of Patient Power, LLC, based in Seattle and founded by two health communications pioneers, Andrew and Esther Schorr. They previously founded HealthTalk, a leader in support for people with chronic illnesses and cancer. Patient Power® is devoted to helping you and your family through knowledge, to get the best medicine and return to good health.

Andrew lived that. In 1996 through a routine blood test he was diagnosed with a leukemia. By reaching out to other patients and connecting with doctors who specialize in his illness he participated in a clinical trial, received “tomorrow’s medicine today” and now, 12 years after diagnosis, remains in deep remission and takes no medicines.

While Andrew’s success won’t be everyone’s story, he is committed to helping each person he touches approach their illness in a way that gives them the best chance of good health: getting smart about their diagnosis, seeking out the best healthcare providers, getting second and even third opinions on what approach to take, and drawing on others for support.

About the Player:

Started in September, 2010 our partners now have the opportunity to display our custom online tool, “The Powerful Patient Player,” containing programs partners select from our vast library that are most relevant to their community.

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My wife and I, as well as our youngest daughter Mary, two grand daughters, Jennifer and Sarah decided to get these tattoo’s as a permanent show of our support  for our second daughter, Susan who was diagnosed with  breast cancer on November 10th 2009. At the same time, our oldest daughter Kathy was awaiting the results of a lumpectomy she had of a growth on her breast. (NEGATIVE ) In the mean time, Mary herself had a needle biopsy for a breast growth (ALSO NEGATIVE)

Susan spent the winter going through chemo and was surrounded by all of the family and her many friends.  She had a double mastectomy in April 2010 and just had the last  of her reconstruction surgeries.

Susan maintained her family and friends with her sense  of humor, in face of the terrible consequences of chemo with her almost daily updates on Caring Bridge.

 Ironically almost every female in our family and their friends have participated in the Susan  B. Komen 60 mile walk in Philadelphia for the past 4 years.  No one  in our family ever had any  kind of cancer but  they walked for  those of their friends who had it or who’s family members had it.  Then in November of 2009 it struck our family! It can happen to anyone, at any time  !

Jack and Betty Wagner

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