by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2008
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 4, 2008
[Don’t miss yesterday’s related post about the founding heroes of patient empowerment.] Something important is afoot in the land when people are able to access and share “industrial strength” information instead of being satisfied with the “consumer...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 3, 2008
Today’s entry in the CNN.com “Empowered Patient” series, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, is titled Empowered heroes’ hard lessons now help others:This week, as we reflect on American heroes, we’re saluting a few “patient...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 18, 2008
Alan Greene emailed this dispatch from Italy: While attending the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Cheryl and I met a delightful man from the Netherlands named Martien Lankester, executive director of Avalon. He is a physician, teacher, and organic farmer. He...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 9, 2008
In February 2007 the Washington DC PBS station, WETA, produced a pilot program for a series called “Healthcare 360,” produced by George Mason University and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The pilot is about “Health IT and how it...
by e-Patient Dave | May 11, 2008
Chapter 12 of Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture opens with a classic anecdote of what it looks like when an empowered patient practices participatory medicine with an equally participatory care team: CT scans revealed I had pancreatic cancer, and it...
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