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Thank you, Dr. Tom

I’m going to express something very personal here, because the community behind this blog is going through a profound transition, and it’s time for an acknowledgement. Many of you who currently read this blog already know this but there will be a new wave...

NON-Practicing Patients

It took me a few days to digest what was troubling me with the New York Times Magazine article. The efficacy of the ACOR groups is based in part on the dual fact that patients and caregivers members of the online communities NEVER behave like they are replacing their...

When the Patient is a Yahoo

There’s been a lot of talk about Scott Haig’s November article in Time, When the Patient is a Googler: Alan Greene wrote on this blog; it was a hot topic on the NY Times “Well” blog; and Susannah Fox said: I’d love to hear what people...

Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. Go mobile.

The Health 2.0 conference was an opportunity to learn about an amazing array of emerging technologies and, for me, to connect them to a bigger vision of what’s happened and what’s next. Here is the text of my remarks, annotated with as many links as I can...

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