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e-patient stories, general, shared decision making

Jonena Relth: Participatory medicine: my first-hand account

Kathleen O'Malley | September 9, 2011

Jonena Relth submitted this guest post to share her very positive experience with her surgeon. I was being prepped for surgery last week and my surgeon, Dr. Davies, came in to discuss the procedure. He explained to me that he had reviewed my file several times and decided that he would prefer to perform a [...]

e-pts resources, medical records, policy issues, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, Why PM

Testimony submitted to the Meaningful Use workgroup (and an urgent call for citizen participation)

e-Patient Dave | April 16, 2010

There’s an important call to action below. If you care about making healthcare more responsive to us, and less responsive to vendors, please read to the end. This is short. Thanks to all of you who submitted comments on this week’s post, offering feedback. Here is the PDF I submitted today, which is being distributed to [...]

e-patient stories, general, Why PM

A family becomes e-patients, of necessity — and succeeds

e-Patient Dave | October 10, 2009

This is an inspiring story from several years ago of how a family became e-patients. When things got rough they were empowered and engaged, taking matters into their own hands. As the picture shows, there’s a happy ending, though it was rough along the way. Unlike millions in the US today, Gangadhar Sulkunte and his [...]