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“Dumb patients? No way. It’s only normal behavior and status-quo clinical care.”
SPM member Sue Woods, of Oregon Health and Science University and the Veterans’ Administration, has posted a terrific response to CNN.com’s “Ten dumb things you do at the doctor’s office” and to our discussion of it here. Titled Dumb patients? No way. It’s only normal behavior and status-quo clinical care, it’s great. For each “dumb [...]
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The Evidence for and Experience of Engaging in Health Care: Jessie Gruman’s powerful speech at ICSI
Ten days ago a post here mentioned the 14th ICSI / IHI Colloquium. I said the Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented, including: Jessie Gruman, four time cancer patient and founding co-editor of our journal, gave an important breakout session, about which I’ll be writing soon. (Jessie is founder and president of the excellent Center For [...]
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CNN: “10 dumb things you do at the doc’s office”? Discuss.
Additions late 5/30/11: First, once again the comment discussion has colored some people’s view, including mine, of this discussion. That’s good. Second, in response to comments, I made a couple of edits, striking through the old text, and tonight I discovered the strike-throughs didn’t take. I’ve fixed that, but I apologize for any confusion. Anyway, [...]
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Safety net populations do benefit from online PHRs: poster at ICSI/IHI Colloquium
The Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented last week at the 14th ICSI/IHI Colloquium. (ICSI is the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a small midwestern think tank that’s way too poorly known.) SPM members who presented: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of Health Populi gave the keynote for Day 2 Jessie Gruman, four time cancer patient and [...]
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Participate in SPM’s glossary project: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabet Soup
Guest post by medical transcriptionist Kathy Nicholls, member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. This idea grew out of a discussion on the SPM members listserv. To join, see instructions at bottom. The world of health care is filled with abbreviations. Sometimes that makes it really hard to understand what’s being said in the medical [...]
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Pioneers of patient engagement
Credit where credit is due. The Danish Medical Association’s annual meeting is coming up in a few days. For the event’s blog, they requested a post about patient engagement! I wrote about the pioneers at my hospital who for many years have been saying that patients are the most underused resource in healthcare. The post [...]
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SPM on the Air: People’s Pharmacy (NPR)
Joe and Terry Graedon, long-time friends of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, produce The People’s Pharmacy, a website and radio program on NPR. Last Saturday’s program was about the Society for Participatory Medicine, which they helped to found in 2009. (They were also among Doc Tom’s advisors on the e-patient white paper.) The full program (one hour) is [...]
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BMJ posts expert roundtable audio on Salzburg Statement and Shared Decision Making
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) has posted a three-part downloadable podcast about the Salzburg Statement. Part 1: History and current status of shared decision making. [26:04] Part 2: Vision of the future, and barriers to getting there. [23:31] Part 3: Informed doctors, informed patients. [35:48m] The participants were: Fiona Godlee, editor in chief, BMJ Angela Coulter, [...]
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The Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making
This Thursday at the headquarters of the British Medical Journal in London, an important announcement will be made about patients’ rights to be actively involved in decisions about their treatment. Below is the press release about it. The subject is shared decision making, which we’ve been posting about recently (series here; initial post here.) Developed [...]
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Too Many Doctors?
I don’t hide the fact that I am a dyed in the wool liberal. I read, and agree with, pretty much everything Paul Krugman writes. But, it’s rare for me to discover the kind of synergy between my Krugman-inspired ire over economic policy and politics generally and the e-Patient movement that I awoke to this [...]
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