Orthopedist

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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 [...]

Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

e-Patient Dave | December 10, 2009

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 [...]