by Sarah Greene | Sep 6, 2015
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We science-medicine-poetry junkies, along with a sizeable portion of the world’s population, are mourning the death of Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author who died last Sunday from metastasized melanoma. And as enthusiasts of Dr. Sacks’ catechisms on the soul of...
by Sarah Greene | Jan 31, 2012
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NOTE: We’re happy to welcome back Sarah Greene, one of the founding members in 2009 of SPM and its journal. She left a while ago for London, where she’s continued her work at the leading edge of thought about medical knowledge. Sarah is ahead of most of...
by Sarah Greene | Jun 26, 2009
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“To alienate [patients] from their own decision making is to change them into objects.” – P. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed The newly drafted Declaration of Health Data Rights, created by patient advocates, caregivers, health care professionals, technology and...
by Sarah Greene | May 11, 2009
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My son graduated from college last year and is now in Nepal, visiting schools and writing about rural education under the Maoist regime. He was excited to tell me, when I visited him recently in India, about how a classic book on education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed...
by Sarah Greene | Mar 15, 2009
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The wonderfully helpful NYTimes series Patient Money reported Friday on the topic of Opaque Inc., as posted recently here by Gilles. The article, Bargaining Down the Medical Bills, gives practical advice about how to negotiate your doctor, lab, and hospital fees. The...
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