The New York Times had an article today about a new Pew Center for Internet and American Life survey about how patients with chronic illnesses are finding new ways to cope online through social networks. Patients who once felt isolated now have a forum for sharing questions, hopes and ideas for coping with the particular complications of an illness. Fellow patients are able to relate to each other, in a way that their physicians may not be able to, simply because they physicians have never experienced actually living with an illness. Patients describe being in a neighborhood or a member of a community. Now even people with rare illness can have a support group, though they may never meet in person.
You can check the survey and data out here.
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