By
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
| December 4, 2007
Not sure how we missed this (bad blogger!), but our own Susannah Fox from the Pew Internet and American Life Project was interviewed for HealthDot a month ago. Check out the interview...
By
e-Patient Dave
| April 5, 2019
SPM member Jeanne Pinder has spent years crusading for price transparency with her startup ClearHealthCosts. She’s formed partnerships with WHYY in Philadelphia, been on CBS News, won awards for investigative journalism with NOLA.com and Fox 8’s...
By
e-Patient Dave
| February 21, 2019
The famous TED Talks site TED.com is the holy grail of many evangelists. Aside from the extraordinary visibility it gives your message, and aside from the validation of your message (the site’s tagline is “Ideas worth spreading”), it means...
By
e-Patient Dave
| June 22, 2016
Regular followers of this blog know for years we’ve been hot on the trail of the never-ending search for truth, justice, and please some reliable advice on medical matters. Tonight a google alert alerted us to the next round, the next attempt: a column by the...
By
e-Patient Dave
| April 20, 2016
Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. Today we resume our review of the chapters of Tom’s White Paper. This Foreword stands on its own, with no comment needed, so we’ll just paste it in verbatim. Note: these numbers are from 2000, when the Web...
By
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
| April 15, 2016
Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. I first met Tom Ferguson in 1994 online (where else?) when he reached out via email to chat about online support groups. I was still in graduate school at the time, and he had come across my indexes of Internet...
By
e-Patient Dave
| April 12, 2016
Yesterday, in Honoring the memory of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, ten years after his death, we started a series of posts to mark his untimely demise and look back on his work. As we noted, at his death he was working on a project funded by Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneer...
By
e-Patient Dave
| October 20, 2015
There can be no question that Stanford Medicine X is, head and shoulders, the most patient-oriented medical conference in the world. Susannah Fox first wrote about it here in 2012 after the first annual event, and it’s gotten better every year. I agree with what...
By
e-Patient Dave
| October 7, 2015
From the Health 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley yesterday – the best tweet and slides EVER that illuminate the difference between medicine’s view of the problem and patients’ experience. SPM co-founder Susannah Fox took pictures of two excellent...
By
e-Patient Dave
| July 10, 2015
A new article in the BMJ this week reports on a good, clever evaluation of 29 online symptom checkers, showing that some have a clue and some don’t. I love it; in my view the bottom line is “Some are better than nothing, none is near perfect, and some are...
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