Dave deBronkart : Meet e-Patient Dave

Dave deBronkart·TEDxMaastricht
Meet e-Patient Dave
Summary
When the speaker was 56 years old in 2006, he was slowly losing weight because of stage 4 kidney cancer but it was growing out of his leg eventually snapped, skull, and tongue. And then, his median survival was 24 weeks. It was only for 6 months.
However, he could be where his daughter’s wedding party after a year and a half later, he stood this TED stage in 2011 also, and in 2020, now, he is still alive‼︎

The speaker said that the result was from websites and by using the internet, he found a lot of information. He created groups of fellow patients online and called on all of them to talk with one another. One patient community told him amazing things. Kidney cancer is an uncommon disease, usual treatments wouldn’t better and he could get phone numbers who know new treatment ways.
How wonderful a website is!
An American Cancer Society that the government approves didn’t know it, but patients know what patients want to know and it’s the power of patients' network. Electronic is done using a computer over a network thus the speaker is called e-Patient. Patients must have raw data and can help others. Meet e-Patent.