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Medicine 2.0 Day 2 – Magnificent!

by | Sep 18, 2012

Following up on Susannah Fox’s superb summary of Medicine 2.0 Day One, I would like to offer some overview and comments about day two. This was my first Medicine 2.0 meeting. I had heard a lot about Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, and his merry band of...

“The Participation Hypothesis”

by | Aug 24, 2011

Found in the August 24/31 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association: A quote from Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001): “Significant changes in human behavior can be brought about rapidly only if the persons who are expected to change participate in...

e-Patients Discover Unrecognized Side Effects

by | Jun 25, 2009

Detecting drug complications is too important to leave to doctors or FDA administrators. We have learned the hard way that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) don’t detect all the adverse drug effects that may be important. Far too often, serious side effects...

E-patients Unite To Document Problems with Generic Drug

by | Apr 23, 2008

For over 30 years at The People’s Pharmacy, we have been guided by a respect for people’s ability to make informed decisions about their health. We have always welcomed input from consumers, but we had viewed our website as an information dissemination...

E-Patients Report Bad Drug Reactions

by | Nov 19, 2007

When a medication causes a horrible side effect a patient usually turns to the prescribing physician for help. If the adverse reaction is listed in the prescribing information, then the doctor is more likely to recognize the problem as drug related. Too often, though,...

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