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WHO in Geneva – SPM in the house!

by Casey Quinlan | Oct 30, 2014

SPM member Casey Quinlan (who’s posting this) was invited to attend an event at the WHO in Geneva. This post originally appeared on her Mighty Casey Media blog, and is reposted here in its entirety by SPM request. Guess who got invited to WHO? No, really....

WSJ: “Researchers are asking patients to help design clinical trials.”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 14, 2014

I could smack myself for not noticing this earlier, but it happened while I was at the ESMO conference (the “European ASCO” cancer conference) in Madrid last month: Amy Dockser Marcus has another great piece on how medicine is truly starting to engage with...

Remembrance in New York: “Jessie Gruman, the Force”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 6, 2014

Yesterday at the New York Academy of Medicine was the first of Jessie Gruman’s two remembrance events, which we blogged about. Here’s a view of the gathering, which was followed by a reception. It was a fitting, moving, great tour through her life, with...

(Video) Larry Weed, father of the Problem Oriented Medical Record – Grand Rounds, 1971

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 10, 2014

Students of medicine (surely most MDs) will know the name Larry Weed, but I didn’t until a few years ago on this blog, when I learned that in 1999 our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson gave Weed an Outstanding Achievement Award. In the late 1960s Dr. Weed...

Keeping Patients in the Dark: SIIPC14

by Casey Quinlan | Jul 2, 2014

Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...