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We’re Overdosing On Sodium: Whose Responsibility Is It?
I confess to loving Campbell’s tomato bisque soup. I mix it with 1 percent-fat milk and it’s hot and delicious and comforting, but one of the worst food choices I could make because one cup contains...
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Book Review: “Tabloid Medicine: How The Internet Is Being Used To Hijack...
This was the Guest Blog at Scientific American on February 23rd, 2011. In his new book, “Tabloid Medicine: How The Internet Is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit,” Robert...
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Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections: Patients Must Be “Safety Partners”
This is a guest post by Dr. Julia Hallisy. Serious infections are becoming more prevalent and more virulent both in our hospitals and in our communities. The numbers are staggering: 1.7 million people...
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A Physician With Neck Cancer: Just As Frightened As Any Other Patient
Two years ago we wrote “Let’s hear it for the ‘d-patients’” — doctors who become e-patients themselves. We said “D-patients prove that patient empowerment is anything but anti-doctor. Heck, sometimes...
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Treatment Success Depends Largely On Patient Participation
Ten days ago a post here mentioned the 14th ICSI / IHI Colloquium. I said the Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented, including: Jessie Gruman, four time cancer patient and founding...
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What Patients Really Need: A 360 Degree View Of Their Illness
As we often say at Patient Power, there is no one source for medical information. The same is true when it comes to support for patients. No one organization is THE place to go and has all the answers....
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Changing The Behavior Of Doctors: Is It The Key To Engaging Patients?
I may not know how to tell the difference between an empowered patient, an engaged patient, or an activated patient. But I do know that the fastest way to disempower, disengage, and de-activate any...
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Is It More Important To Make Patients Happy Or To Heal Them?
One would think that happiness and healing are inextricably linked in healthcare, but the Happy Hospitalist (HH) raises an interesting question: is modern medicine’s emphasis on patient satisfaction...
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Should Patients Have Access To Lab Test Results Before Their Physician...
Six weeks ago I had a skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon. About 7 days after the biopsy, I received a letter from the pathology lab where the sample had been analyzed under a microscope. I...
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Patient Empowerment Has The Potential To Be Problematic
Let me say first that I am a practicing primary care doctor who is very much focused on patient centered care. Though I cannot go back to being a patient who is unaware about what a doctor does, the...
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