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What’s in a (disease) name?

by | Sep 7, 2012

I witnessed an intriguing Twitter conversation between Christy Collins and Greg Biggers about disease names, so I asked Christy to write up her thoughts. It is an honor to host this guest post: By Christy Collins When I started an advocacy and research organization...

SUITS and VOMIT: fun at the ABIM Foundation Forum

by | Jul 31, 2012

As noted a few days ago, I’ve been at the ABIM Foundation Forum. This is, frankly, the most heartening event I’ve been to: the Foundation people are working hard to generate real transformation in the practice of medicine, including the new Choosing Wisely...

Caregivers Online

by | Jul 12, 2012

A new Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report is out today: Family Caregivers Online. I thought I’d give some background on why we did the study and a few key take-aways. Caregivers are alpha geeks of health care 30% of U.S. adults are currently...

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...

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