Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.

Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family?

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.

I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.