About Duncan Cross
About this blog: I write primarily on health care from the perspective of a frequent and heavy user of that system. More broadly, this blog is about being ill, and anything relevant to that experience.
About this blogonym: I do apologize, but a degree of anonymity makes it a lot easier for me to write with honesty and candor about my experience and perspective. It’s better that way for everybody. If you want a sense of my life in particular, I tag some posts as biographical.
About this blogger: “The patient has a history of Crohn’s disease, diagnosed with terminal ileitis in 1994… [He] is a thin, somewhat anxious gentleman, who is alert and oriented, in no acute distress…. He displays appropriate judgment, insight, affect, and mood, and is a good historian.”
Outside the blogosphere: If you think your organization, conference, class, church, or whatever would benefit from having an articulate patient discuss illness and health care, I might be your guy. Send me an email. I live in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, but can travel beyond the region for the right occasion.