Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
Wall Street Journal
patient networks, pt/doc co-care
When Patients Band Together: Far From a Disgrace
When it comes to news sites, I love scanning readers’ comments as much as the original articles. Comments are an unfiltered feed, a window into public opinion (in other words, catnip for someone like me). One thread caught my eye recently. Ron Winslow wrote a very nice piece in the Wall Street Journal about how [...]
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“Economic Euthanasia On the Rise”
(Veterinary Practice News)
This is not going to be easy to absorb, if you really let it sink in. My wife’s a veterinarian, and we sometimes compare notes. So this headline caught my attention. Excerpt from the article: Economic Euthanasia On the Rise Euthanasia can be the last act of love when disease or time has made death [...]
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Will The Great Recession Create Millions of e-Patients?
Another post about healthcare “creepware” from Opaque, Inc. While reading the Wall Street Journal health blog, I saw this disturbing piece of information: In a new survey conducted by Mercer, the employee benefits consulting shop, nearly half of the 428 employers polled said they plan to shift more health costs to employees in 2010. Further, [...]
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