by Danny van Leeuwen | Oct 12, 2013
The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises as a topic of this blog. Let me share with you one of the values of Advocates. I work for Advocates as VP of Quality. We express our values...
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...
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