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Your Guide to The Medical Maze
Anne Tergesen
Published on October 24, 2005
Copyright © 2005&emdash; The McGraw–Hill Companies Inc.
About a year ago, Ann Principe saw worrisome symptoms in her 75-year-old mother. "Her short-term memory was gone. She was forgetting her own granddaughter's name," the 47-year-old Kensington, (Md.) woman recalls. Principe sought help. Instead of calling one of her mother's half-dozen doctors, she phoned the family's health advocate -- a new breed of adviser who guide patients through the medical maze.
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