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“Doctors Are Killing Their Profession, the Healthcare System and Their Patients with Paternalism”

e-Patient Dave | October 3, 2009

That’s the strongest language yet in our “Why Participatory Medicine” series. And it’s not our words – it’s the words of a board certified neurosurgeon after he heard the Participatory Medicine message at Medicine 2.0 last month. The message echoed his thoughts, and he blogged about it. The “DocPatient” blog, by Dr. Louis Cornacchia of [...]

e-Patients Are Proud Deviants!

Gilles Frydman | June 15, 2009

The wonderful Atul Gawande delivered this past Friday a commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He touched on and expanded on the theme of his groundbreaking article “The Cost Conundrum” that was reviewed on this site. The transcript of the commencement address is definitely worth reading because [...]