Society for Participatory Medicine
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Gilles Frydman
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Twitter: filter, suggestion box, idea machine, window
On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet I’ve written. But I [...]
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Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.
Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:
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2010: The Year of Open Streams & Fax Machines
I started writing this post while watching a livestream of the LeWeb09 conference in Paris and finished it while watching a livestream of TEDxSV. Open Streams are of many kinds and shapes. They are completely changing how we consume information, news & entertainment. .. It could be a joke and it could be funny! Instead, it [...]
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Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine
There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an annual feature of HealthLeaders magazine. We want to acknowledge some of the pioneers who [...]
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Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine
Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was captured in a short video. ___________________ The Institute of Medicine’s recent [...]
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Why the Journal of Participatory Medicine?
Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie Smith MD (the primary physician of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson) and Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., who [...]
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“Economic Euthanasia On the Rise”
(Veterinary Practice News)
This is not going to be easy to absorb, if you really let it sink in. My wife’s a veterinarian, and we sometimes compare notes. So this headline caught my attention. Excerpt from the article: Economic Euthanasia On the Rise Euthanasia can be the last act of love when disease or time has made death [...]
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