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Patient Stories on Health Web Sites Can Not Always Be Trusted

Gilles Frydman | March 15, 2010

Guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa (Twitter, LinkedIn) blogs on health and is Editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine, where she blogs on education. “On the [...]

MITSS: Much-needed support after medical errors

e-Patient Dave | November 15, 2009

Ten years ago this week, 11/18/99, Linda Kenney was scheduled for ankle replacement surgery. She woke up three days later in the ICU. Her chest had been cut open. She was in the hospital ten days. And nobody talked about what had happened. What had happened is that the nerve block administered to her ankle (a [...]