by Ileana Balcu | Sep 13, 2013
Guest blogger Natasha Gajewski participated in the Flip the Clinic meeting at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Below are her observations about the meeting and a thought you might consider. Natasha is an e-Patient and the developer of Symple, a symptom journal for...
by Ileana Balcu | Aug 13, 2013
Guest blogger Peggy Zuckerman tells us a story about a young competent doctor and how transparency and openness is key to giving better care. Peggy Zuckerman never intended to be a patient advocate, not even a patient! But after her diagnosis with a “tiny,...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2013
Last year during TEDMED 2012, in “The cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine”: Ben Goldacre on the missing data, we covered the vitally important news that a lot of medical research has gone missing, leading to a severely corrupted foundation for evidence-based...
by e-Patient Dave | May 30, 2013
See my post about this on Forbes. This is as close as a call to arms as we ever get around here, given how collaborative we are. But this is a case of bad science and/or bad reporting, with clear harm to the participatory medicine movement. Whatever the reason, it...
by David Harlow | May 20, 2013
Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 22, 2013
Imagine a black box. You can feed all sorts of information and data into it all the live long day. But the amount of data you can get out of it is limited. It just stares back at you with its blank, neutral sides. It can tell you things like where it was manufactured,...
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