e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

WSJ: “Researchers are asking patients to help design clinical trials.”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 14, 2014

I could smack myself for not noticing this earlier, but it happened while I was at the ESMO conference (the “European ASCO” cancer conference) in Madrid last month: Amy Dockser Marcus has another great piece on how medicine is truly starting to engage with...

Remembrance in New York: “Jessie Gruman, the Force”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 6, 2014

Yesterday at the New York Academy of Medicine was the first of Jessie Gruman’s two remembrance events, which we blogged about. Here’s a view of the gathering, which was followed by a reception. It was a fitting, moving, great tour through her life, with...

New on JoPM: “e-Patients Never Retire”

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 16, 2014

Today in our Society’s journal, SPM co-founders Joe and Terry Graedon of PeoplesPharmacy.com posted something I couldn’t agree with more: e-Patients Never Retire That’s kinda by definition, eh? But there’s an uppity Sixties edge to this, and...

The diverse nature of patient communities: a prostate cancer patient’s experience

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 16, 2014

On my own site I have a (loose, rough, poorly managed) list of patient communities, gathered ad hoc, as time allows. Today I posted a new contribution of a different sort – the experiences of a prostate cancer patient I met at a speaking event last week in...

(Video) Larry Weed, father of the Problem Oriented Medical Record – Grand Rounds, 1971

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 10, 2014

Students of medicine (surely most MDs) will know the name Larry Weed, but I didn’t until a few years ago on this blog, when I learned that in 1999 our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson gave Weed an Outstanding Achievement Award. In the late 1960s Dr. Weed...