by Danny van Leeuwen | Jul 22, 2017
Recently I connected a patient expert in insurance and provider billing with a patient at the tail end of chemo struggling with huge unexpected bills. I introduced a cancer survivor with web design skills to a patient advocate setting up a new blog. I linked a parent...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 9, 2017
Sunnie Southern is an avid activist for better care, a proactive patient (very responsible), a long-time member of our Society for Participatory Medicine, and a good friend with an irrepressibly bright disposition. As I often say, “I’ve never seen anyone...
by Ileana Balcu | May 16, 2017
This is a guest blog post by Allie Davanzo. Allie was my student in the New Media and Health Communication class I taught at TCNJ. More about the class is shared in this post. Allie Davanzo is a sophomore Public Health major at The College of New Jersey who hopes to...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 7, 2017
We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 27, 2017
An announcement today in Europe (press release below) brings a new angle to the copious US coverage of drug pricing, such as predatory pricing of the EpiPen and the smirking, seemingly sociopathic Martin Shkreli. For the drug described below, the Médecins du Monde...
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