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Minnesota wrong kidney tragedy, part II

by | Mar 21, 2008

Important update: before reading, please see correction 3/23/08 to Tuesday’s original post. The basic issue is unchanged but in any sensitive case like this accuracy is vital. I received a comment on Tuesday’s post from a doctor in the Twin Cities, Dr. Bill Utz....
Flashback to 2001

Flashback to 2001

by | Mar 12, 2008

Bowing to popular demand (OK, one person) I uploaded a PDF of the 2001 press release from the American Medical Association which suggested that Americans make a New Year’s resolution to “trust your physician, not a chat room” since the information found online puts...

e-Patients Lead The Way at Health 2.0 Conference

by | Mar 4, 2008

The Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego, CA (March 4, 2008) was a buzz with ideas of innovation and connectivity. Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD managed to cram more presentations into one day than most conferences do in two days. The almost-overwhelming day was...

Rate a Doctor?

by | Jan 6, 2008

For years Doc Tom urged us to facilitate patients’ publicly rating doctors as a way to accelerate e-pateints movement. Alan (DrGreene) was excited about this, even though he was a physician, but I was afraid it would open Pandora’s box. In the winter of...

Markle Foundation Policy Meeting 2007

by | Dec 11, 2007

The Markle Foundation has a health program that is dedicated to accelerating the rate at which information technology enables consumers and the health system that supports them to improve health and healthcare. That’s a mouthful. Well, anyway, they held a...

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