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Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

e-Patient Dave | December 10, 2009

There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an annual feature of HealthLeaders magazine. We want to acknowledge some of the pioneers who [...]

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Our Bodies Ourselves: support this pioneer of empowered, participatory healthcare

e-Patient Dave | December 5, 2009

Some people think e-patient ideas are new. They’re not. I’d like to give credit to a noble antecedent, and ask for your support. Shortly after I discovered this blog (February ’08) I recognized two strong precedents from earlier in my life: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby Book (opening words: “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do,”) and Our Bodies, [...]

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Health News Review launches new site with improved e-patient training

e-Patient Dave | December 4, 2009

There’s a new resource for a vital e-patient skill: reading health news responsibly. It helps us be smarter before we bring new findings to the attention of other patients and our providers – not to mention smarter for our own benefit. When “Doc Tom” Ferguson defined “e-patient” in the 1990s, “Educated” wasn’t one of his [...]

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Inviting Controversy: David Eddy at ICSI

Susannah Fox | December 1, 2009

David Eddy did nothing to reassure Kent Bottles about evidence-based guidelines in his recent keynote, saying essentially: “The problem is that we don’t know what we are doing” (!!)