Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
policy issues, reforming hc
Virtual Participatory Medicine Town Meeting
On Friday Senator Tom Daschle announced a campaign to get input from the public about what healthcare reform should look like. “The Transition will host Health Care Community Discussions across the Country over the holidays this December to help his Policy Team put together their final recommendations for the New Administration.” What a novel approach. [...]
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Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them?
This guest post is an article written by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, published in her local paper. It’s an example of widening distribution of principles and practices documented in the e-patient white paper. I’m grateful to Lisa for sharing these true stories of patients taking matters into their own hands, sometimes in collaboration with their care [...]
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New Health Journalism Blog
The Association of Health Care Journalists has launched a new blog called Covering Health and it’s well worth adding to your blogroll.
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How We Die
This is what I know about death. Admitted to a nursing home with a broken hip-dehydration, my ninety-eight-year-old grandmother awoke from a deep slumber, laughing and clapping her hands when my five-year-old daughter played the violin. A week later she had a stroke and could not swallow.
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A Fatally Flawed Medical Educational Model
This week, many news outlets reported on how residents should be given 5 hours of sleep after working 16 hours straight. Think about that for a moment. In what other job — any job in the world — would it be acceptable to even use the term “after working 16 hours.” The 16 hour workday [...]
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“The 100 Percent Organic Man”
Dr. Alan Greene has been on a mission to find out all he can about organic food. You can read all about his three year journey as “The 100 Percent Organic Man” on the New York Times article and Blog post by Tara Parker-Pope. He just ended a year as the President of the Organic Center, [...]
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Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles
Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 [...]
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