Medications

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Next “doctor as e-patient”: Howard Luks, MD

e-Patient Dave | October 27, 2011

We’ve sometimes written about doctors as e-patients. (There are a lot!) Here’s the next. SPM member Howard Luks MD, orthopedist, had some symptoms. He spoke to his physician and GI doc, who gave him pills. It didn’t make sense to him. So he did what a lot of us do: “Then I headed onto a [...]

What my mom takes to the doctor

e-Patient Dave | April 10, 2010

I was talking to Mom (age 80) the other night, and she mentioned a document she updates regularly. She prints a fresh copy to take to every doctor visit, so they’ll always have it up to date and won’t have to go digging. We’ve never discussed topics like “the importance of med reconciliation,” but when [...]