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Alex Albin: Why patients aren’t managing their care (Healthcare

e-Patient Dave | February 7, 2012

A note on the SPM member listserv from Alexandra Albin, frequent guest contributor here – ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Alexandra Albin Here is an article I came across with some relevance to S4PM. 4 Reasons why Patients aren’t managing their care Happy Reading! The two pieces that caught my attention: 1-patient engagement theories have not been [...]

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New editorial series in JoPM asks the tough questions

Kathleen O'Malley | February 1, 2012

A new Journal of Participatory Medicine tradition has just launched. Our monthly editorial series will tackle the toughest questions of participatory medicine, from both the patient and the provider side. The first installment, by Joe and Terry Graedon, is titled “Participatory Medicine: Must You Be Rich to Participate?” — read on at http://www.jopm.org/?p=2342. And by [...]

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Mayo Proposal: Make Med Students Understand Costs?

e-Patient Dave | January 31, 2012

Corrected 6:50 pm – the Medical Professionalism Blog belongs to the ABIM Foundation, not to the Board. ABIM is the American Board of Internal Medicine, one of the two U.S. organizations that certifies internal medicine physicians. Their The ABIM Foundation’s Medical Professionalism blog just posted a new item, ‘Extremist Proposal Shocks the Medical Establishment. Here’s the lead: (caps & [...]

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TED talk on doctors’ mistakes

Kathleen O'Malley | January 27, 2012

TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves especially — and calls for a reality check. Using personal anecdotes, he argues that medical culture must change to allow physicians [...]

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Scrubs N Suits posts a good intro to SPM and e-patients

e-Patient Dave | January 19, 2012

Thanks to Ellen Khalifa at Scrubs and Suits for a nice introduction to SPM, “A Chance to Get behind the Wheel: the Society for Participatory Medicine.” http://bit.ly/wFd9Ep “For decades baby boomers have been associated with movements advocating equality, cooperatives and shared experiences. But far from being some relic of the 1960’s, activist attitudes continue to [...]

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Peter Elias: Empowerment and collaboration

Kathleen O'Malley | January 19, 2012

Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD, a family physician, raises some interesting questions about the nature of patient empowerment and explores its implications regarding patient-physician collaboration. This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog, PeterEliasMD (personal observations and perspectives. I was struck last week by a remark in a discussion of patient-centric care: “…patient empowerment is [...]

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Pauline Chen: Getting Patients to Take Charge of Their Health

e-Patient Dave | January 12, 2012

Quick note as I run to the airport – Last May we reported on a study in process at Emory University about whether a “safety-net” (poor) population would engage with a personal health record. The preliminary results in that poster showed that what predicted patient performance was not how poor they were, nor how bad [...]

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Gloucester Times: Taking control of our own care in today’s health maze

e-Patient Dave | January 12, 2012

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Jessie Gruman’s “Lessons from the Year of Living Sick-ishly”

e-Patient Dave | January 11, 2012

Regular readers know that last year Jessie Gruman of the Center for Advancing Health was treated for her fourth cancer. (Knock it off, willya??) (Diagnosis post here http://e-patients.net/archives/2010/09/another-devastating-diagnosis-jopm-editor-jessie-gruman-undergoes-surgery-for-a-fourth-cancer.html, excellent post-treatment speech about her new Patient Engagement framework here http://e-patients.net/archives/2011/06/jessie-gruman-at-icsi.html.) On her blog Prepared Patient Forum she’s just written a post that many of us will [...]

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JoPM: A Doctor’s Remedy for Long Waits

Kathleen O'Malley | January 11, 2012

A new article in the Journal of Participatory Medicine tackles the problem of long wait times at doctors’ offices, a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction. “Waiting Room Remedy: Doctor Pays for Delays (The Doctor’s Perspective)” by Pamela Wible, MD offers a solution that shows respect for patients, at the same time explaining why many of [...]