by e-Patient Dave | Jun 21, 2010
Paul Roemer (LinkedIn, Twitter ) is speaking this Thursday at Health 2.0 in Bethesda. He’s a Twitter friend who has a lot in common with me: a cancer kicker with a business background, who now sees himself as an e-patient. There’s one big difference: he went...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 7, 2010
Three weeks ago you met mother and daughter Diane and Hilary Engelman, and learned of their odyssey through the land of smoke and mirrors as Diane fought to get Hilary the correct surgery. Hilary had been told to hurry up and have babies early because she supposedly...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2010
Meet Donna Cryer – another person who was an e-patient before she ever heard the word. (Weren’t we all?) As with Diane Engelman’s “mama lion” story this week, we connected with Donna through the internet. I heard her speak last month at...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2010
We often talk here about empowered patients’ struggles to get – or even create – the care they need. Usually we’re talking about it in a medical sense. But as far too many people know, sometimes there are other obstacles. Laurie Todd is, to me,...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 11, 2009
Here’s another true e-patient story from one of our team. Cheryl Greene is third from the left in the banner at top of this blog. She’s a long-time friend of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson, a board member of the Society for Participatory...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 26, 2009
One of the key learnings of my first year as a student of the e-patient movement, studying how healthcare is evolving, is this: People get radicalized when it gets personal. This is one such story: it’s the e-patient awakening of a long-time personal friend of...
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