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Dennis Quaid’s “Chasing Zero”

e-Patient Dave | April 25, 2010

Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” It’s on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I’ve seen to change how so much of the healthcare industry has its head in the sand about the possibility [...]

NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact

e-Patient Dave | March 23, 2010

One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering, participatory things for years – and who’ve already been producing valuable results for years. Example: the patient safety movement. On Paul Levy’s blog I [...]