Healthcare on the Internet: PatientsLikeMe
June 23, 2008 – 12:58 am
PatientsLikeMe: Social Solidarity and Support
You can find lots of information about diseases and their cures on the internet. One of them is PatientsLikeMe”. There is an interesting story about the foundation of this site; a young boy named Stephen Heywood caught an illness and his family tried to find information about this illness. The information chain led to PatientsLikeMe that is a set of sharing experiences among patients.
It is a different website on the way of resolving problems and considered the atmosphere of social solidarity and support net and its slogan is “patients helping patients live better everyday”. Moreover, it is not only for the patients, but also for the doctors or experts who are researching on sanitary conditions. Thanks to patientlikeme, the healthcare in the world will be influenced positively.
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Watch the video about PatientsLikeMe on CNN