{"id":21466,"date":"2023-06-30T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21466"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:57:55","slug":"he-was-diagnosed-with-als-then-they-changed-the-face-of-medical-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21466","title":{"rendered":"He was diagnosed with ALS. Then they changed the face of medical advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Juana Summers, Courtney Dorning, Elena Burnett on June 30, 2023 for NPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent crisp June night, as the Chicago Cubs prepare to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates, fans dressed in blue pack Wrigley Stadium&#8217;s famous bleachers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/06\/30\/1184806340\/als-diagnosis-brian-wallach-sandra-abrevaya-biden-congress\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juana Summers, Courtney Dorning, Elena Burnett on June 30, 2023 for NPR On a recent crisp June night, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,12,609],"tags":[122,744],"class_list":["post-21466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiver","category-health-care-general","category-mens-health","tag-als","tag-medical-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21467,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions\/21467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}