by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2011
One of the most common questions about e-patient skills is how to tell the difference between good and bad information, as we research. A wonderful resource just passed its first birthday: Retraction Watch, a blog that digs into the details when science falls short....
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 27, 2011
SPM co-founder and co-chair emeritus Alan Greene MD, of DrGreene.com, just posted this tasty numerical comparison. Remedy, he says? “Working together can be one of the best ways to prevent errors, which is one of the reasons I believe...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 26, 2011
Now up on YouTube: You, the patient, are a vital component of medical decision making. Believe it or not, it’s worth your effort to find out about your treatment options! This informal FlipCam vignette models a physician encouraging the patient to ask:...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jul 19, 2011
SPM member John Novack, of the Inspire.com patient communities, submitted this guest post by Wendy Station about another online community — another great example of patients engaging in their care, supplementing the value they get from their medical...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2011
“Health is social,” says SPM member Phil Baumann, RN (@PhilBaumann) at HealthIsSocial.com. Slate has a dramatic story of how a mother’s Facebook network helped spot – rapidly – Kawasaki Disease, a rare auto-immune disease that the...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2011
The Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented last week at the 14th  ICSI/IHI Colloquium. (ICSI is the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a small midwestern think tank that’s way too poorly known.) SPM members who presented: Jane...
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