by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2010
The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer...
by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2010
Through the magic of Google Alerts, Diane Engelman recently learned of this blog. She’s one heck of an e-patient, though until now she’d never heard the word. That proves patient empowerment is a real trend, driven by a powerful force: the desire to help...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jul 29, 2008
The e-Patients Group has been discussing Shannon Brownlee’s book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, which tells how the logic of the U.S. healthcare system works against coordination and effective treatment. “Between 20 and...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 12, 2008
Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a...
by Susannah Fox | Jan 3, 2008
An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal traces the history of visiting patients in hospitals in England, from the 18th century to the present. Sadia Ismail and Graham Mulley paint quite a picture in their opening lines: From 2 pm they gather at the...
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