by Ileana Balcu | Aug 1, 2016
This is a guest blog post by Cleo Kordomenos. Cleo was my student in the New Media and Health Communication class I taught at TCNJ. More about the class is shared in this post. Cleo Kordomenos is a Senior Communication Studies student at The College of New Jersey...
by e-Patient Dave | May 16, 2016
The times, they are a-changin’: medicine is realizing there can be gold found on the internet, amid all the garbage that’s also there. Items: In 2014 a European government started buying Google Ads telling patients “Don’t Google it, check a...
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 | Jul 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...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 2, 2015
SPM member/legend Regina Holliday, a powerful force for grass roots empowerment and creator of The Walking Gallery of Healthcare, got whooping cough (pertussis) this winter, despite having been vaccinated just a few years earlier. The UK magazine Pharma Times...
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