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On Veterans Day: Inspiration

by | Nov 11, 2010

Necessity is the mother of invention.  I have been profoundly moved over the past few months by a handful of people who have been forced to live this idiom or who have stepped up to the challenge of aiding wounded warriors. In honor of Veterans Day,  please take a...

Day 1 of TEDMED: Charity Tillemann-Dick, e-patient

by | Oct 27, 2010

Update Jan. 18: the video has just been released – see it at the bottom of this post. TEDMED is a truly extraordinary conference in San Diego, a fall sibling of TED talks focused on medicine. TED talks are just 18 minutes long, chosen and designed to blow your...

How One Cancer Center Lets Patients Call the Shots

by | Oct 23, 2010

Guest post by Erin Macartney (Twitter) of Palo Alto Medical Foundation. We would welcome similar posts from providers (or anyone else) who’s illustrating what we advocate in the Society for Participatory Medicine: truly patient-centered care, in which...

Fixing Those Damn Lies

by | Oct 20, 2010

A new commentary on “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science,” in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly. [See also our previous post on the article, with dozens of comments, some of them excellent. And be sure to read Peter’s footnotes. -e-Patient Dave]...

Atlantic: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

by | Oct 17, 2010

There’s an extraordinary new article in The Atlantic, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science.” It echos the excellent article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) one year ago this week, by Richard W. Smith, 25 year editor of the British...

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