by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2012
Nancy has quite a publicist for her book “e-Patients Live Longer,” which is spreading the e-patient message… here’s an interview with FoxNews.com.
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 28, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a narrative by Kelly Young entitled “Present, Patient, and Accounted for: How and Why Patients Are Present at Scientific Meetings of the American College of Rheumatology.” Young describes how the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 15, 2012
Over on The Health Care Blog, John Lumpkin MD posted a good essay about the proposed ONC rules to let patients automatically see their lab test results. The SGIM Forum (newsletter of the Society for General Internal Medicine) ran a debate about it, and...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 7, 2012
A note on the SPM member listserv from Alexandra Albin, frequent guest contributor here – ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Alexandra Albin Here is an article I came across with some relevance to S4PM. 4Â Reasons why Patients...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 1, 2012
A new Journal of Participatory Medicine tradition has just launched. Our monthly editorial series will tackle the toughest questions of participatory medicine, from both the patient and the provider side. The first installment, by Joe and Terry Graedon, is titled...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 12, 2012
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 11, 2012
Regular readers know that last year Jessie Gruman of the Center for Advancing Health was treated for her fourth cancer. (Knock it off, willya??) (Diagnosis post here...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 11, 2012
A new article in the Journal of Participatory Medicine tackles the problem of long wait times at doctors’ offices, a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction. “Waiting Room Remedy: Doctor Pays for Delays (The Doctor’s Perspective)” by Pamela...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 7, 2012
I just learned that the organization of SPM president-elect Sarah Krug, Cancer 101, has gotten what I consider a major acknowledgement. On his blog GeekDoctor.blogspot.com, John Halamka announced last month that his wife Kathy was newly diagnosed with breast cancer....
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 7, 2012
From SPM member Ileana Balcu – A post that might be of interest to our group – about the importance of diagnosis – from a former president of Society of General Internal Medicine, Robert Centor. A personal reflection on 2011 – the importance of diagnosis...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 3, 2012
Followers of our “gimme my data” series will get a rough-edged refresher about current reality by the well-written and raw story of @WilliamDale_MD’s Sunday post Medical Health Record: A Personal Journey Down the Rabbit Hole. A great narrative by a...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 22, 2011
To understand a headline – especially a year-end “Top N” list – you need to look under the hood and find their criteria. Yesterday the New York Times Well blog posted The Most Popular Health Topics of 2011. I looked, eagerly, to find the rise...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 22, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a review of A Symphony in the Brain, a book that offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 21, 2011
As you can see in the later comments on Tuesday’s post, @Xeni’s first MRI did not go well. She was given no hint of what the experience would be like – the horrible banging and clanging in the claustrophobic space – and the tech operating the...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 14, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a pair of complementary articles, one by a patient advocate and one by a physician, both concerning the story of a woman who worked tirelessly to obtain better health care for her two chronically ill and...
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