by Casey Quinlan | Dec 16, 2014
In a report released today (December 16, 2014), Consumer Reports shares insights from a survey of 1,200 people who were recently hospitalized. SPM is not surprised by the findings, which include the fact that patients who said they received respectful treatment by...
by Casey Quinlan | Dec 12, 2014
This post by long-time SPM member Michael Millenson first appeared on the EngagingPatients.org blog. We’re re-posting it here to both put it on the membership’s radar, and to invite comments on Michael’s POV that “As much as we can argue that...
by Casey Quinlan | Feb 3, 2014
For e-patients and others who list themselves on Texas Medical Institute of Technology’s SpeakerLink, this very meaty post by Society of Hospital Medicine founder and world-renowned leader of the hospitalist movement Dr. Bob Wachter is required reading. After...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2013
For the patient safety crowd – which is all of us, when we shop for medical services: Cheryl Clark of Health Leader just posted this on Facebook, from this weekend’s Boston meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ): “For the first...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 26, 2013
The overlap between the clinical aspects of our health journey and behavior of health team members occurs most often in medication management. Effective medication management depends on empowered, informed patients and caregivers prepared for clinician visits, and...
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