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Facial Paralysis, Not Personality Paralysis

by | Jul 15, 2012

Anyone who has doubts about including patients’ input in research studies should talk with Kathleen Bogart, PhD. She focuses on the social ramifications of facial paralysis, both congenital (like Moebius Syndrome) and acquired (like the often partial facial paralysis...

Idelle Davidson: “ASCO, Where Have You Been?”

by | Jul 5, 2012

This guest post by Idelle Davidson originally appeared in the Huffington Post as “ASCO, Where Have You Been? The organization that sets standards for cancer care does not include cognitive issues in their patient consent document.” Last month, I was in Arlington, Va....

How American Independence Created a New Kind of Patient

by | Jul 3, 2012

By Michael L. Millenson The empowered patient, skeptical of professional authority, is not a new phenomenon: he was actually created by the American Revolution. Reading through historian Gordon Wood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Radicalism of the American...

Mayo Clinic Scholarship Contest for e-Patients

by | Jun 27, 2012

This post originally appeared at http://socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/2012/06/20/2012-patient-caregiver-scholarship-contest-for-social-media-summit/. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media...

Checklists for children hospital stays

by | Jun 22, 2012

Member Elisabeth Bailey published a few articles on the Dr Greene website. Her recent book, The Patient’s Checklist, got great reviews and is a great workbook for anyone having any medical procedure in a hospital. In the Dr Greene articles, Elisabeth is...

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