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NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 23, 2010

Updated 3/12/2014 with new links at bottom. One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering,...

EHR Etiquette and the Importance of Eye Contact in Clinician-Patient Communication

by Gilles Frydman | Mar 18, 2010

Another guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, following her much-commented earlier post. Lisa is Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for...

Patient Stories on Health Web Sites Can Not Always Be Trusted

by Gilles Frydman | Mar 15, 2010

Guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa...

E-patients.net = suggested reading

by Susannah Fox | Feb 17, 2010

Gretchen Berland is one of my heroes, so I was thrilled when she asked me to give a guest lecture at Yale. Then I read the syllabus for “Media & Medicine in Modern America.” It’s too cool to keep to myself… The organizing themes for the...

The Decision Tree: What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Long Life

by Susannah Fox | Feb 14, 2010

Warning: Do not read The Decision Tree unless you’re ready to make some kind of change in your life. Thomas Goetz catalogs the recent advances (and setbacks) in medicine & personal health, but also maps out the possibilities for how things could get...