For many patients the process of blogging shifted their relationship with their illness, decreased their sense of isolation, brought meaning to their lives, and linked them back to the outside world."

For many patients the process of blogging shifted their relationship with their illness, decreased their sense of isolation, brought meaning to their lives, and linked them back to the outside world."

Memo To Bill Keller: This Is Why Patients Blog About Illness

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What motivates someone like Lisa Bonchek Adams to share such personal information in such a public way? Pamela Katz Ressler, who has studied the phenomenon, weighs in.