by e-Patient Dave | Apr 5, 2008
I want to introduce a term: “serial referral delays.” I assert that serial referral delays are harm, and they’re a metric we can track at any level from individual hospital to the entire nation or planet. First, a little discussion, then “how...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2008
Corrected 3/23/08: The hospital does have online patient records, though they don’t include CT/MRI or mammogram results. See link and details below. This one strikes close to home, landing a year after removal of my own cancerous kidney … plus, a year...
by Alan Greene | Jan 15, 2008
In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called “When the Patient is a Googler”. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Dec 7, 2007
You’d think that any state that boasts a city like Boston that has as many teaching hospitals and world-class hospitals as Boston would be one of the best cities to get ill in and partake of that excellent medical care. Well, you’d be wrong. According to a...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 17, 2007
Today I heard a story on NPR about a new “superbug” that caused ear infections in children that were resistant to all currently recommended antibiotics used to treat this infection. This reminded me that antibiotics are being over used. This is, in part,...
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