I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.
I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.