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“The Quantified Patient”: my talk at “Quantified Self” show&tell, December 2009

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 27, 2009

The Quantified Self (aka “QS”) is an informal San Francisco based group of people who are tracking one thing or another about their lives. (Could it exist anywhere else??) They have occasional “Show&Tell” meet-ups, with elbow-rubbing and a...

PeoplesPharmacy.com in NYTimes: “Not All Drugs Are the Same After All”

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2009

We’re thrilled to see our Joe and Terry Graedon, of PeoplesPharmacy.com, in the New York Times (“Not All Drugs Are the Same After All”) telling a truth that the FDA hasn’t figured out: generics don’t always work the same as the brand name...

Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2009

There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an...

Our Bodies Ourselves: support this pioneer of empowered, participatory healthcare

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 5, 2009

Some people think e-patient ideas are new. They’re not. I’d like to give credit to a noble antecedent, and ask for your support. Shortly after I discovered this blog (February ’08) I recognized two strong precedents from earlier in my life:...

ICMCC: Perhaps the single most valuable e-patient info site

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 16, 2009

In last weekend’s post about “patients want all their data” I said I wished I’d known about the article (published mid-May) during last summer’s health data debates in Washington. Incredible Dutch e-patient Lodewijk Bos tweaked me, saying...

MITSS: Much-needed support after medical errors

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2009

Ten years ago this week, 11/18/99, Linda Kenney was scheduled for ankle replacement surgery. She woke up three days later in the ICU. Her chest had been cut open. She was in the hospital ten days. And nobody talked about what had happened. What had happened is that...