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June 26, 2012 By e-Patient Dave

Chinese saying: “Prolonged illness makes the patient a good doctor”

Being on vacation (yay), I’m finding lazy time to dawdle in all kinds of things I’ve postponed. One of  them is the conversation a year ago about my TEDx Maastricht talk, “Let Patients Help,” http://on.TED.com/Dave:

Last night I ran across this, from a Chinese college student named Gao Yixian:

Jul 16 2011: Thank you very much, Dave! It is a very good and brilliant idea. In fact, there is an old saying in China- “久病成良医”, which means prolonged illness makes the patient a good doctor. So let patients help patients!

Love it.

And now, back to the beach.:-)

Filed Under: patient engagement

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