{"id":3396,"date":"2009-10-05T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2009-10-05T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:11:44","slug":"christensenhwang-power-to-the-patients-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/10\/christensenhwang-power-to-the-patients-the-atlantic.html","title":{"rendered":"Christensen\/Hwang: &#8220;Power to the Patients&#8221; (The Atlantic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3400\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"hwang\" src=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/10\/hwang1.jpg\" alt=\"hwang\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3400\" title=\"christensen\" src=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/10\/christensen1.jpg\" alt=\"christensen\" height=\"90\" \/>&#8220;While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that\u2019s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is also unique in the extent to which it excludes consumers from important decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910u\/patient-empowerment-healthcare\"><strong>Power to the Patients<\/strong><\/a>, a new article published today in <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, by Clayton Christensen and Jason Hwang MD, authors of <em>The Innovator&#8217;s Prescription<\/em>. They continue with a refrain that&#8217;s all too familiar to readers of this blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Bring your own health research to the doctor\u2019s office, and you might be labeled a nuisance patient. Question your doctor\u2019s recommendations, and you could be called noncompliant or difficult.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second paragraph says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Doctors and patients alike are accustomed to the firmly entrenched Doctor Knows Best status quo. But <strong>it is only by empowering patients <\/strong>\u2013 entrusting them with greater responsibility and putting opportunities for self-directed care into their hands \u2013 <strong>that health care can be made significantly more efficient and effective.<\/strong> It&#8217;s a bit late, of course, to work patient empowerment into the various proposals now wending their way through Congress. But anything that can be called true reform may be impossible without it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, heck, I could paste in the whole thing &#8211; it&#8217;s brief and to the point. I didn&#8217;t say it, they did. <a href=\"&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910u\/patient-empowerment-healthcare&quot;&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">Go read it.<\/a> I will say, they end with this call to action:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surely if more patients realized how much influence they could have in their own care, they would discard their roles as passive health care consumers, and would instead become its agents of change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910u\/patient-empowerment-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">Go read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past ten years regarding technology, Christensen revolutionized world thinking about innovation with this &#8220;disruptive innovation&#8221; framework, which identified the underlying dynamics that explain why certain innovations succeed in overthrowing industry leaders. 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