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E-patients, Cyberchondriacs, and Why We Should Stop Calling Names
New concepts need gimmicks. Proven concepts do not. The phenomenon of using the internet to gather and share health information is now mainstream. It’s time to change how we talk about it, revising and maybe even retiring certain terms. Carlos Rizo and I invite you (everyone!) to join our discussion on Wed. Sept. 1 at [...]
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“Are You Safe?” patient safety awareness video
Today I’m participating in a workshop, “Engaging Minority Communities in Safer Healthcare,” organized by MITSS (Medically Induced Trauma Support Services), a Boston non-profit I’ve written about before. The current speaker is Lisa O’Connor, VP of Nursing at Boston Medical Center. She just showed this four minute safety awareness video, produced by Quantros. Much of its [...]
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A Troubled Trifecta: Peer Review, Academia & Tenure
We welcome Peter Frishauf as an author on our blog. Peter is on the Editorial Board [brief bio] of our Society’s Journal of Participatory Medicine, and as described below, has already authored some important material on this subject. His first post here is triggered by an article in Tuesday’s New York Times that generated much [...]
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“Blogs are the foundation in a world of streams”
Fascinating post by Louis Gray, reflecting on the transient nature of much of social media.
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“Why Can’t Medicine Be Like Car Talk?”
Trisha Torrey sums it up niftily on her Patient Empowerment Blog at About.com.
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“How to become a more effective e-patient” (and clinician): lecture at Duke by Dr. Charles Smith
Well, here’s a treat: Dr. Charles Smith, a founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine, recently gave a lecture at Duke titled “How to Become a More Effective e-Patient.” Here it is, in four YouTube segments. “Charlie,” as we all call him, is a wonderful guy. He’s co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and [...]
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Rheingold, Nelson, and Engelbart
Howard Rheingold has shared video of a backyard discussion he had with technology pioneers Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson when they dropped by for dinner, along with Howard’s wife Judy and Nelson’s wife Marlene Mallicoat. Brief but intense discussion of the technology and the “packaging,” as Nelson calls it. Engelbart says “you can embrace all [...]
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Should Patients Read Doctor’s Notes? Wrong Question.
When you have a doctor’s appointment, and she makes some notes and later formalizes them for your medical record, would you like read them? There’s been debate over the years about whether patients should read the notes that doctors write about them and their health issues — in academic circles, in a great Seinfeld episode [...]
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Medical Self-Care: The Doc Tom interview in Mother Earth News
Next in our series of posts about our founder Doc Tom. Previous time capsules: 1980 and 1985. Come, ye economics buffs and algebra fans; get out your pencils and solve for x, n, and XX: Whatever else the year 19XX is remembered for, it will — without a doubt — go down in history as [...]
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Next history lesson: Doc Tom (and the Graedons) in the way-back machine
Last Friday we dug up our founder Doc Tom’s Seven Laws of Self-Care, from 1985. At one time Tom served as medical editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Woodstock-era empowerment resource whose subtitle was “Access to Tools.” At left (click to enlarge) is the cover of the original 1968 edition – just as I [...]
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