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Anyway, please do read the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following is <em>my opinion<\/em>, not the Society&#8217;s, and asks for <em>your <\/em>opinion, especially if you&#8217;re a member of the Society. (It only costs $30 to <a href=\"http:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/join-us\" target=\"_blank\">join<\/a>, but as always, everyone&#8217;s welcome to discuss here.)<br \/>\n___________<\/p>\n<p>Participatory medicine is a two way street. You don&#8217;t get to be a passive lump and call yourself an empowered, engaged patient.<\/p>\n<p>Last week CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Empowered Patient&#8221; correspondent Elizabeth Cohen posted something about this that popped up tonight in social media:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/05\/26\/dumb.doctors.office.ep\/index.html \" target=\"_blank\">10 Dumb Things You Do at the Doctor&#8217;s Office<\/a>. It generated a bit of disagreement on Twitter tonight. What do you think? Here&#8217;s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>First, our Society&#8217;s social media team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/participatorymedicine\" target=\"_blank\">noted it<\/a> on our Facebook page, and tweeted it, with this lead-in from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u200e&#8221;I know many of you are programmed not to question your doctor, but we can&#8217;t read your mind, so we need you to&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It came up during tonight&#8217;s #hcsm, and someone said the article made good points but was &#8220;framed and titled disrespectfully&#8221; to patients. Well, let&#8217;s discuss.<\/p>\n<p>First, here are a few of the ten &#8220;dumb&#8221; things. For the rest, go to the whole article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. You talk on your cell phone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your health we&#8217;re talking about. Other calls can wait. Turn the thing off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My opinion? Yeah, <del datetime=\"2011-05-31T02:10:43+00:00\">you&#8217;re being<\/del> it&#8217;s dumb (and rude) if you consume your doctor&#8217;s precious face time (or butt time) with a phone call. Dumb. And if you think that&#8217;s disrespectful of me, okay, I think\u00a0<del datetime=\"2011-05-31T02:10:43+00:00\">you&#8217;re being dumb.<\/del> that&#8217;s dumb too.:) <strong>This is healthcare! Partner with your clinicians!<\/strong> Be involved, not timeslicing!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>2. You lie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to treat you the best way I can, so if you&#8217;re gay, tell me. If you drink a bottle of tequila every night, I need to know&#8230; I won&#8217;t judge.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m no expert, but in my travels I&#8217;ve heard from <em>many <\/em>doctors and nurses things like &#8220;<em>Then <\/em>we find out he &#8230;..&#8221; Really, people, it&#8217;s <em>dumb <\/em>if you don&#8217;t tell your care team things they need to know! <strong>Be responsible for your side of the communication!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skipping ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>6. You don&#8217;t know what medications you&#8217;re taking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patients should bring a list of medications they&#8217;re actually taking, not what they believe they are supposed to be taking, or what they think I want them to take&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right. And I was recently guilty of this &#8211; when I visited my primary, Dr. Sands, I knew that in addition to my one blood pressure pill, I was taking several supplements, but I didn&#8217;t know the specifics. So I went home and sent him the specifics. But really, it was sloppy, lazy, and a little bit irresponsible of me not to know &#8211; and I&#8217;m willing to say yeah, that was dumb.<\/p>\n<p>After all, how many times have you heard &#8220;Bring a list of your current medications?&#8221; Perhaps not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps your Society should develop an e-patient checklist &#8211; and if we do, I think it should include all 10 of these items.<\/p>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n<p><em>Update June 3: See <a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/archives\/2011\/06\/dumb-patients-no-way-it%E2%80%99s-only-normal-behavior-and-status-quo-clinical-care.html\" target=\"_blank\">our follow-up post<\/a>, about Sue Woods&#8217;s terrific take on what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">she<\/span> would say on the 10 dumb things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to join our social media team? 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