by e-Patient Dave | Mar 27, 2012
SPM member Eve Harris, on her “Healthy Piece of My Mind” blog, has a potent post on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision about the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents held by a private company. The patents have restricted patients’ and families’ access...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2012
Beyond question, the “gimme my damn data” rock star of 2012 is ICD patient Hugo Campos. (See our past posts about him, including his TEDx Cambridge talk and other media coverage.) I just learned about this well produced short version of his story and his...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2012
Associate Editor Aubrey Westgate has a good, solid new piece in the March Physicians Practice magazine about interacting with patients who get engaged with their care by seeking health information on the internet. SPM member Trisha Torrey of Every Patient’s...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 16, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published “An Introduction to Self-Care,” a personal narrative by psychiatrist Sana Johnson-Quijada. Inspired by a positive family experience with collaborative care, the author was emboldened to modify her...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 14, 2012
Twitter friend @Scanman submitted this one. Robert Krause was diagnosed with diabetes in 1926, at age 5, shortly after insulin was introduced. What a story of a patient who was engaged in his care – starting at age 6. He died this month, just before turning 91....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 14, 2012
We often hear lately that physicians don’t KNOW what things cost, and are thus disempowered from helping patients control costs. This item arrived today from The Medical Professionalism Blog, the blog of the ABIMF, the American Board of Internal Medicine...
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