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E-Patients And The Participatory Internet- Part I

by | Jun 5, 2007

I’ve recently been attending some very excellent conferences that I will describe in more detail over several future posts. What follows here will, I hope, set the stage. As most people reading this blog are well aware, the World Wide Web and the Internet itself are...

e-Patients Don’t Fit Stereotypes!

by | May 28, 2007

If doctors think about e-patients at all, they may imagine that they are Web-savvy young or middle-aged people. Assertive baby boomers waving pages of print-outs from the Internet send shivers down some doctors’ spines. That stereotype is rapidly becoming obsolete....

At least one Medical School starts to “get it”

by | Apr 23, 2007

If you’re like me and wonder why- oh- why our medical education system is not embracing the information age more quickly, then an editorial recently written by Dr. Joe Martin at the Boston Globe is for you. Dr. Martin is the retiring Dean of Harvard Medical...

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