by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2016
We lost a great one today. Jody Schoger @JodyMS was one of the founders of #BCSM (breast cancer social media), the first patient community that started on Twitter and grew into a 501(c)(3) organization, bcsm.org. She passed on this morning, and Twitter is in tears....
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 21, 2016
We’ve often written here about palliative care and end of life. (The two are not the same: you can have palliative care without having decided the end is near.) They’re, in a sense, the ultimate expression of patient-centered care, forcing the...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | May 12, 2015
The advo-cacy of individual SPM members is gaining increasing visibility in the mainstream media, driving home the human impact of policies that help – or don’t help – patients be active contributors to their families’ health and care. This is...
by Casey Quinlan | May 8, 2015
This came over my transom from a friend who works with a major medical school’s digital publishing group. Seems both relevant, and high impact. – Casey Seasons Change by Candace Barnes i. When I left for the hospital The night was bitter cold, And snow...
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