What’s your health care dream?--Susannah Fox

  #whatifhc in #TheWalkingGallery   Note: This is two posts in one — scroll down to read Regina Holliday’s point of view. From Susannah Fox: For me, Twitter is a free-wheeling space where people dance with ideas. Anyone is welcome to jump into the spotlight and take a twirl. That’s how I see hashtags – [...]

New editorial series in JoPM asks the tough questions--Kathleen O'Malley

A new Journal of Participatory Medicine tradition has just launched. Our monthly editorial series will tackle the toughest questions of participatory medicine, from both the patient and the provider side. The first installment, by Joe and Terry Graedon, is titled “Participatory Medicine: Must You Be Rich to Participate?” — read on at http://www.jopm.org/?p=2342. And by [...]

Katie Matlack: iOS medical peripherals: convenient and connected--Kathleen O'Malley

This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream. Devices that were once just toys for techies are now the favorite tools of many ex-technophobes — [...]

Mayo Proposal: Make Med Students Understand Costs?--e-Patient Dave

Corrected 6:50 pm – the Medical Professionalism Blog belongs to the ABIM Foundation, not to the Board. ABIM is the American Board of Internal Medicine, one of the two U.S. organizations that certifies internal medicine physicians. Their The ABIM Foundation’s Medical Professionalism blog just posted a new item, ‘Extremist Proposal Shocks the Medical Establishment. Here’s the lead: (caps & [...]

Opening the Door to Closeted Science--Sarah Greene

NOTE: We’re happy to welcome back Sarah Greene, one of the founding members in 2009 of SPM and its journal. She left a while ago for London, where she’s continued her work at the leading edge of thought about medical knowledge.  Sarah is ahead of most of us. Only in the past six months did [...]

“I have a right to my damn data”: Hugo Campos in the Mercury News--e-Patient Dave

Well, SPM’s resident ICD patient is getting quite a lot of attention these days! First a feature in MIT Technology Review in November, then his TEDx video was released this month, leading to a spot on NPR’s On The Media on 1/20, and now he’s on the front page of Silicon Valley’s newspaper – a 900 [...]

TED talk on doctors’ mistakes--Kathleen O'Malley

TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves especially — and calls for a reality check. Using personal anecdotes, he argues that medical culture must change to allow physicians [...]

“That means there is hope” – Atul Gawande at #CISummit--e-Patient Dave

Edits made in the discussion at bottom, 1/27. Quick post from the media table at today’s Medicare Innovation Summit: Deservedly famed surgeon & author Atul Gawande just put together a bunch of thoughts into a potent summary. Paraphrasing from memory: There is a bell curve for quality – a wide gap between the best care [...]

Medical Devices: Another take on “We want Access to our Damm Data”--e-Patient Dave

Another potent guest post by SPM member Alexandra Albin, @MsAxolotl. If this doesn’t give you a sense of who is “the ultimate stakeholder” in health matters, nothing will. Remember, “patient” is not a third person word. Your time will come. A conversation on the SPM listserve was started by Joleen Chambers, @JjrkCh, a patient advocate [...]

Hugo Campos on NPR’s “On The Media”--e-Patient Dave

Read to the end… Our man Hugo Campos (see Friday’s post) is becoming a media star! TEDx, then MIT Technology Review, now NPR’s ”On The Media”! From SPM co-founder Joe Graedon, of People’s Pharmacy, on the SPM listserv – see also the items below … ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Joe Graedon Date: Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:01 [...]