by e-Patient Dave | Apr 4, 2016
SPM member Sara Riggare is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and a member of the BMJ’s Patient Advisory Panel. She has Parkinson Disease, and is highly proactive in dealing with it. One thing some Parkinson patients do is non-contact boxing,...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2016
This is a hoot. I say this as someone who first blogged in 2008 about this process. On Tuesday March 1, Mayo Clinic will be streaming video of a colonoscopy, live on Periscope, in a broadcast they’re calling The #ScopeScope. Lee Aase, head of the Mayo Clinic Social...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 9, 2015
Guest post by SPM member Katherine Kelly Leon @KatherineKLeon of the famous “SCAD sisters,” spotlighted in this 2011 post. This is about the “Your Googling” mug many of us discussed last week. Coffee mugs are like totems, spiritual items that...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 5, 2015
You can’t make this stuff up. One of our most-commented posts ever was Monday’s The truth about that “your Googling and my medical degree” mug, about the coffee mug that went viral on Facebook this week. Well, some docs saw it and emailed, asking where to...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 25, 2015
Ah, the world of social media. This morning’s Boston Globe “Spotlight” investigative team (which won a Pulitzer in 2003) has this, citing local superstar hospitals Massachusetts General and its sister hospital, Brigham & Women’s. Within an...
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