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Mayo Proposal: Make Med Students Understand Costs?

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 31, 2012

Corrected 6:50 pm – the Medical Professionalism Blog belongs to the ABIM Foundation, not to the Board. ABIM is the American Board of Internal Medicine, one of the two U.S. organizations that certifies internal medicine physicians. Their The ABIM...

TED talk on doctors’ mistakes

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 27, 2012

TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves...

Scrubs N Suits posts a good intro to SPM and e-patients

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 19, 2012

Thanks to Ellen Khalifa at Scrubs and Suits for a nice introduction to SPM, “A Chance to Get behind the Wheel: the Society for Participatory Medicine.” http://bit.ly/wFd9Ep “For decades baby boomers have been associated with movements advocating...

Peter Elias: Empowerment and collaboration

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 19, 2012

Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD, a family physician, raises some interesting questions about the nature of patient empowerment and explores its implications regarding patient-physician collaboration. This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog,...

Pauline Chen: Getting Patients to Take Charge of Their Health

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 12, 2012

Quick note as I run to the airport – Last May we reported on a study in process at Emory University about whether a “safety-net” (poor) population would engage with a personal health record. The preliminary results in that poster showed that what...