by Michael Millenson | Oct 4, 2019
(This post originally appeared Oct. 2, 2019 on EngagingPatients.org) The dating site Match.com wants to help singles “find the kind of relationship they’re looking for” by providing “the tools they need to help take the lottery out of love.” The Centers for Medicare...
by Michael Millenson | Nov 9, 2018
Doctors are regularly deluged with advice on how to engage patients. But how can you, as a patient, get your doctor to truly engage with you as a person? Your health and even your life could depend upon it. By “engage,” I don’t mean just the doctor not interrupting...
by Michael Millenson | Jul 4, 2018
Originally published six years ago – as good as new today! The empowered patient, skeptical of professional authority, is not a new phenomenon: s/he was actually created by the American Revolution. Reading through historian Gordon Wood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
by Michael Millenson | Jun 27, 2018
This is the second of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted, largely authored by Michael Millenson, who provides this essay for context....
by Michael Millenson | Nov 15, 2017
Baseball, like medicine, is deeply imbued with a sense of tradition, and no team more so than the New York Yankees, disdainful of innovations like placing players’ names on the backs of their jerseys and resistant to eroding strict standards related to haircuts and...
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