clinical diagnosis

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Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier

Susannah Fox | December 10, 2008

Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made and treatment is administered based on the patient’s symptoms, medical and family [...]

Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them?

e-Patient Dave | December 5, 2008

This guest post is an article written by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, published in her local paper. It’s an example of widening distribution of principles and practices documented in the e-patient white paper. I’m grateful to Lisa for sharing these true stories of patients taking matters into their own hands, sometimes in collaboration with their care [...]