Cystic Fibrosis Around the World returns with an interview coming to us from France! As always, if you or someone you know living abroad with cystic fibrosis would like to be included in #CFAroundTheWorld get in touch with me at [email protected] I will be featuring several countries new to the blog series once a week over...
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Throughout the second half of May I ran my Cystic Fibrosis Around the World blog series. My goal behind the project was to compare the “patient” experience among people living with CF across the globe and learn about the different types of care offered. It was really a culmination of many weeks of interviews and...
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Here we are, back home in the United States. I hope this blog post is really as informative for our international followers as it is for people living across the US. I think it would be irresponsible of me to say that two interviews could represent the feelings of all the people living with CF...
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We head to Australia as the first leg of Cystic Fibrosis Around the World begins to wrap up. Tomorrow I will post my American interviews, then write a recap blog later in the week (probably Friday) where I will reflect on everything I’ve learned throughout the project so far. We will then pick up the blog...
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We head to Spain and Denmark in today’s Cystic Fibrosis Around the World blog post. The interviews that came back from each country were both a bit brief, so I felt it appropriate to combine the two. I think this way of doing things actually serves to point out some significant differences despite the relative...
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We head to the United Kingdom to take a look at cystic fibrosis care in the next installment of Cystic Fibrosis Around the World. Today you’ll meet William Marler, 22 years old living with CF, from Birmingham, England. William and I have gotten to know each other a bit over the past couple of months...
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The U.S. Virgin Islands is our next stop for Cystic Fibrosis Around the World. The group of islands, located in the Caribbean, is officially designated as a territory of the United States. According to the interview the known cystic fibrosis patient population is 1. I’d love to find out more about that statistic, though. St....
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