by e-Patient Dave | Dec 31, 2008
I don’t know who Stanley Feld is, but he just became my friend, with a terrific post on doctor as coach, patient as player. It starts: The role of patients with chronic diseases and their physicians must be clear to both patients and physicians. Physicians are...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 29, 2008
This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). Patient Voices: Managing Chronic Conditions, Living our Lives Ted Eytan snapped a photo that captured...
by Christine Gray | Dec 27, 2008
Are women dying of cancer in the same way they die of heart disease, because physicians trivialize their complaints and they are powerless to get second opinions? How many decades has it taken for cardiologists, practitioners at the apex of medicine, to acknowledge...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 26, 2008
Your perspectives please? On my own blog a somewhat surprising discussion has started about the cost impact of malpractice issues, as part of the total American healthcare budget. I cited some Congressional Budget Office data and some newcomers have shown up....
by Christine Gray | Dec 23, 2008
Pass the Valium! Previously on e-Patients.net I recounted the crazy-making quest for a second opinion on an abnormal mammogram (microcalicifications) as per the advice of New York Times health columnist Jane E. Brody, a breast cancer survivor. Â The gynecologist who...
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