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Patient to Patient Advocacy

  Fast Company just issued their list of most innovative companies and new on the list is Patients Like Me. It is a very smart idea that benefits many and provides patients with their own advocate communities to discuss chronic ailments and treatment.  Patients can absolutely benefit from each other’s experiences. The idea is so simple but so profound. Patients are given the power to control their disease and to share what they learn with others. It was started by three MIT engineers in 2004. They are working to share data with doctors, pharma companies, research organizations, nonprofits and others.

Again, another example of how advocacy communities can benefit each other and possibly provide feedback to pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession. Moreover, it a treatment is not working, here is a good forum to seeing how others are affected and get patient to patient advice.