by Susannah Fox | Jul 18, 2010
e-Patient Dave’s book, Laugh, Sing, and Eat like a Pig, is out! Mark Graban captures the health geek excitement: The best writers make you feel like you’re spending time with a wise friend — add some tears and laughs and you have Dave’s book. I...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2010
Yesterday’s post “Why Gary Schwitzer joined” sparked a lot of discussion, online and off. Why not turn it into a series?? The next to submit is Kent Bottles MD, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). He’s deep, as...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 8, 2010
Correction: the email address for volunteering has been updated to volunteer@participatorymedicine.org We’ve written many times about Gary Schwitzer and the excellent work he does at Health News Review. Last December I said reading health news carefully is a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Prolific, unsinkable Maggie Mahar commented today on the Century Foundation’s HealthBeat blog about Paul Levy’s “Yes, Patients Can Help Their Doctors” introduction to my forthcoming book. Among other things she pointed out, correctly, that not...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 30, 2010
Earlier this month I wrote that the OpenNotes project had kicked off. It’s important – if you haven’t read about it, please click that link. My primary physician and I are participating, but candidly I didn’t expect to get much out of it: as I...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2010
A recurring training topic on this blog, originally for e-patients but also for clinicians and policy people, is understanding statistics. (See posts in that category.)Â Not only are statistics often misinterpreted; even when they’re correctly understood,...
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