Email

I received an email the other day containing the following question: Are you aware of any randomized trials – in progress, or published – that examined the impact of social networking web 2.0, etc. on patient-level variables (e.g., improved rates of preventive health care, cancer screening, diabetes care, etc)? My answer: I haven’t done a [...]

e-patient stories, general, medical records, policy issues

Caremark, Prescriptions and Personal Information

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | September 1, 2010

A friend of mine, Ms. S., recently had an unsettling experience with a company called Caremark (the parent company of pharmacy CVS), whom she fills her prescriptions through. She was reordering a prescription refill she buys through the mail, and needed to pay for it. She tried logging onto their website to pay, as I’m [...]

general

First anniversary of our Declaration of Participation. Please renew!

e-Patient Dave | July 4, 2010

How fitting for the Fourth – a year after our Declaration (see below), I just received my renewal notice for the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here’s a Doctor’s Channel interview, posted a year ago today, in which Society co-chair Alan Greene MD draws an analogy with America’s early presidents: Here’s the Declaration we posted a [...]

medical records, policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM

What Participatory Medicine can learn from a $2,467 phone bill

e-Patient Dave | September 27, 2009

Fair warning: in the weeks leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, just about everything you see here is going to tie in to the society and journal. A fundamental tenet of PM is that patients (ordinary citizens, toi et moi) have more to contribute than we’ve ever thought. [...]

e-patient stories, key people, reforming hc

Regina Holliday’s mural is in the BMJ

e-Patient Dave | September 12, 2009

We’ve written here before about Regina Holliday (follow her blog), whose husband Fred died June 17. In today’s edition of the British Medical Journal, her mural is the picture of the week: Ted Eytan MD took the picture and posted it on Flickr. Today he sent this email to Reggie: ====== Dear Regina, You made [...]

e-patient stories, hc's problem list

In the Spin III: The Smart Resident

Christine Gray | January 13, 2009

My quest for a second qualified opinion on an abnormal mammogram (microcalcifications) began in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Two days before the end of the year, a sharp surgical resident put an end to the spin. The solution was simple – and not high tech. She got on the phone and spoke to the [...]