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e-patient stories, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers, Why PM
e-Patients, send video messages to @Berci’s med students
If you haven’t found him yet, Bertalan Meskó is one of the best new-generation doctors making the most of social media. While he was still a med student his ScienceRoll blog won Blogger’s Choice in 2007, and last month it won Medgadget’s prestigious Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog for the second year in a row. @Berci, [...]
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Unleash the Hot Talent: A Letter from a Patient
This is a guest post from Christine Kraft, Twitter friend @ChristineKraft. She’s a pensive, musey blogger at CocoVillage, and “wicked smaht,” as we say in Boston. She’s also the one who introduced us to Regina Holliday last year. She recognizes talent when she sees it – and here, she plays the role of patient as ingenue, [...]
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Stupid Cancer Show
Listen in at 9pm Eastern on Monday, 12/14, to The Stupid Cancer Show. Host Matthew Zachary will interview Edward Shin, MD, founder of Healogica, Inc., Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and blogger, and… me!
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A new blog worth noting: “Evidence In Medicine”
Understanding medical research, at some level, is a fundamental e-patient skill. As we start digging for reliable new information, we have to learn to separate quality from questionable. (If you think medical journals are academically pure, you’ve got learning to do.) A new blogger has emerged who’ll be a big help: David Rind, MD.
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Low-Tech Models of Participatory Medicine: The Astounding Results of Group Prenatal Care
A signal moment in the history of this blog was the arrival in late summer of a new ally, the birthing movement, represented by Amy Romano, the blogger at Science and Sensibility, the Lamaze International blog. Amy gets it: participatory medicine is not just about the internet – it’s about being empowered and engaged. Her [...]
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A quote I won’t soon forget
Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician, long-time editor of NEJM. So it was a bit of a shock today when Amy Romano, blogger for Lamaze International, sent me this quote: It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of [...]
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Call for Submissions: Grand Rounds next week is on Participatory Medicine
We have wonderful news: next week Grand Rounds is devoted to Participatory Medicine. We are asking for your personal stories of how patient engagement has worked for you. It’s being hosted by Robin, the incredible patient who runs the Survive The Journey blog. She’s a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine (are you? Join) [...]
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