by e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2011
This Thursday at the headquarters of the British Medical Journal in London, an important announcement will be made about patients’ rights to be actively involved in decisions about their treatment. Below is the press release about it. The subject is shared...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 20, 2011
Today’s post on Paul Levy’s blog led me back to this November post, where he posted this 35 minute lecture. I was going to write about the subject, embedding this at the end, but you have to absorb this first. Clinicians and patients alike, please watch. I...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 11, 2011
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes, in Scandal in Bohemia I’ve been reading Jack Wennberg’s new book Tracking Medicine, which is about his...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2011
In December we posted about practice variation and shared decision making (SDM), a field of research originated at Dartmouth decades ago and best known as publisher of the Dartmouth Atlas, which describes the amazing amount of unexplained variation in how many doctors...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 28, 2011
Update 1/29: in a comment, Gilles Frydman pointed out that Newsweek’s Sharon Begley wrote this article almost two months before the New Yorker piece appeared – and the editors held the article, apparently due to pressure from a pharma advertiser whose...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 21, 2011
Update 1/22: this was originally in our “Found on the Net” sidebar, but it’s attracted enough comments that it belongs in the mainstream. I was researching the coverage of statins on Health News Review, the great e-patient resource we’ve often...
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