Power to the patient.
Getting and giving advice are two different things, especially when it comes to health care. Just ask Hamilton Jordan, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. When he was diagnosed with cancer, he didn't rely on anyone else's advice. What sets him apart from the average patient? The answer, increasingly, is not much. In fact Jordan personifies a new health care consumer: educated, interested, aware, and active in charting the course of his or her own health care.
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