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title: Isabel Healthcare Blog | Patient Engagement
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October 17, 2019

### [Epigastric pain symptoms and causes - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/why-does-my-stomach-hurt-epigastric-pain-symptoms-and-causes)

 Everyone has experienced stomach pain at some point in their life. Often the cause is obvious, such as a stomach bug or too many sit ups at the gym,..

February 16, 2017

### [Symptom: Memory Loss - What is normal?](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-memory-loss-what-is-normal)

 Memory loss (amnesia) is an inevitable part of the aging process. As we grow older it becomes more noticeable that we forget people’s names or where..

April 22, 2015

### [Medical Screening - No Substitute for an Informed Patient](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/medical-screening-is-no-substitute-for-good-diagnostic-skills-or-an-informed-patient)

 Two interesting stories appeared in the press recently covering very different approaches to medical diagnosis. The first is a targeted approach and..

October 7, 2013

### [Patients’ Diagnostic Accuracy is Better than Physicians!](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/patients-diagnostic-accuracy-physicians)

 Perhaps a controversial headline but a study recently appeared in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) ‘Physicians' diagnostic..

March 22, 2013

### [Use a symptom checker to help decide whether CT scan is necessary](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-tests-necessary)

 USA Today ran a very interesting article yesterday about the benefits and risks of CT scans.

January 15, 2013

### [Symptom checker-Pivotal tool for patient engagement](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-pivotal-tool-patient-engagement)

 As the patient engagement juggernaut gathers pace, the National eHealth Collaborative has recently weighed in with a Patient Engagement Framework

November 28, 2012

### [Symptom Checker- the ultimate tool for patient empowerment](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-patient-empowerment)

 The advent of a new generation of symptom checker finally empowers patients to make sense of medical information using their own pattern of symptoms..

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