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Sep21
Socializing Medical Issues
- posted by: George
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There have been many websites rushing to be “social” due to the success of Facebook, MySpace and Digg. With so many social sites making noise these days it was easy to miss one of the best social websites, patientslikeme.com. 
Patientslikeme.com is a community of users with various diseases and illnesses that share their successes and failures as they battle through their experiences. The most refreshing aspect of this website is that it was the brainchild of three MIT engineers, not by some huge pharma corporation. The operating costs of the effort are covered by partnerships with healthcare provides that use annoymized data from the permission-based community.
Users are able to chart their progress, compare stories and rate the effectiveness of various medications. It helps network together shared experiences and provides a community of people who can relate to each other. Although I currently have no use for this site I am glad to know that in the event that I or someone I love gets ill, there is a community of people who I can turn to.
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