It is all about perspective.  I am sure these words are spoken often...hundreds, maybe thousands of times a day.  

I encountered this KQED story today:

http://bit.ly/1baYVPL

I could never wish this on anyone, but the perspective from the behind the illness (whether oneself or of a loved one) is one that can not be fathomed until we have lived it.  

I am sorry for Mrs. Patterson, and I hope that she has a good outcome.  I also hope that her husband can turn the tide away from profit and the pursuit of market share to the useful and noble purpose for which the EHR was conceived...in my idealistic mind.