Wellsphere

I accepted an invitation for my blog to be one of the featured blogs on Wellsphere - a website designed to provide more than just an encyclopedia of medical information, but insight into the personal experiences of those managing a cancer diagnosis.

Here's how they describe themselves:

...online health beyond the one-stop encyclopedias of clinical definitions and news [designed] to create a collection of separate web experiences on individuals’ terms, embracing the unique aspects of each health condition and each wellness issue.

And the reason for their existence:

[The] relatively early days of social interactions online [included] gatherings of people who had, or were, going through the same things we were. The advice, counsel and just basic support of people who had “been there,” but were otherwise strangers, had the most profound impact on us all. And the greatest impact was rarely about the science – though we did receive some very good ideas of things to ask our doctors. The real impact was about the “whole person” – we all were not scientific problems seeking chemical answers alone, but folks coping with how to live normal lives when nothing was normal.

I'm impressed.