{"id":15108,"date":"2013-08-06T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2013-08-06T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:40:01","slug":"400-years-behind-updated-bigtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2013\/08\/400-years-behind-updated-bigtime.html","title":{"rendered":"“I’d be 400 years behind” – updated, bigtime"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the most-quoted eye-opening quotes in “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s e-Patient White Paper is this:<\/p>\n
As Donald Lindberg, director of the National Library of Medicine, explains, \u201cIf I read and memorized two medical journal articles every night, by the end of a year I\u2019d be 400 years behind.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s in a section titled “Clinicians can no longer go it alone.”\u00a0It makes the point that it’s entirely reasonable for engaged, informed e-patients to extend the reach of their clinicians, by seeking all the information they can find.<\/p>\n
I just got a great update to that statistic. I’m at the annual ABIM Foundation Forum, and Maureen Bisognano (president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) just showed this:<\/p>\n