by e-Patient Dave | Dec 31, 2012 |
Some things are what they call “evergreen” – persistent value, never out of date. Two come together for this year-end post. __________ A lot’s changed since our society was formed in 2009, but year after year a core skill for participatory...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2011 |
We’ve often cited Gary Schwitzer’s Health News Review (@HealthNewsRevu on Twitter) as an invaluable e-patient resource. With a structured ten point evaluation process, the site’s many trained reviewers evaluate the reporting of health news. We...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 21, 2011 |
Update 1/22: this was originally in our “Found on the Net” sidebar, but it’s attracted enough comments that it belongs in the mainstream. I was researching the coverage of statins on Health News Review, the great e-patient resource we’ve often...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 4, 2009 |
There’s a new resource for a vital e-patient skill: reading health news responsibly. It helps us be smarter before we bring new findings to the attention of other patients and our providers – not to mention smarter for our own benefit. When “Doc...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 20, 2017 |
Please cite this post as “by Dave deBronkart, Marilyn Mann and Peter Elias MD” or, on Twitter, “@ePatientDave, @MarilynMann & @PHEski.” Our blog software only allows listing one author but they provided 2/3 of the content. The medical news...
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 e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2012 |
We’ve long written here about Health News Review, the terrifically empowering and educational news-dissection service started by Gary Schwitzer and now involving numerous writers. Health News Review was modeled after a similar service in Australia started by Ray...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2011 |
We’ve often said here that when an e-patient wants to be responsible for treatment decisions, it’s essential to know how to evaluate the research about each option. A common mistake is to trust, blindly, news reports about a treatment, or even to trust,...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 31, 2011 |
Guest post by SPM member Gangadhar Sulkunte. We posted his family’s e-patient story two years ago. The FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee has published a PDF book called “Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 23, 2011 |
Stop what you’re doing, as soon as possible, and spend 20 minutes watching this. It’s the most powerful short talk I’ve ever seen about health care. Our e-patient white paper is titled “e-Patients: How they can help heal healthcare.” In...
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