With her book “The Biomedical Empire”, Barbara Katz Rothman, a medical sociologist from New York University, makes me a bit sad. She starts with that irritating remark: “Just imagine the financial crisis around the world if we just cured sickness”. She describes the...
Every now and then I give an update on the World Campus’ strategic focus. Usually I look back. However sometimes it’s better to write whilst we’re “caught in the act”, rather than after having reached a new level. We’re on the verge of moving to a new level so I will...
Our perspective on the upcoming European In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) All our Inspire2Live patient advocates are volunteers. I lost my dad when he was only 47 and other patient advocates are patients themselves. Through our proximity to the tragedy of...
Cancer is a killer. Cancer invalidates people and destroys the lives of individuals and families. Just like wars, we will never have peace with cancer. Since Nixon declared the war on cancer in 1971, the notion that cancer is war has become anathema. One naturally...
I have known the Tegenkracht (Dutch for “counterforce”) foundation since 2007. I will never forget how, as a cancer patient, I gave a presentation in the canteen of the Amsterdam Sloten cycling track, together with a few others, about how I had “rehabilitated” myself....
