Arun Mohan and Gordon Moore have an op-ed worth reading at The Health Care Blog.
Health information technology offers great promise to patients. Patients can access their medical information online, communicate with doctors by email, schedule appointments through the web and take advantage of numerous tools to manage their own illnesses. They can become equal partners [...]
Thu, April 30 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Kevin, MD writes:
I’ve always maintained that patients will make or break health reform plans.
I tend to agree with Kevin, except that patients don’t “make” health reform plans. I know it’s a figure of speech, but the fact is that patients have no seat at the table; we are not part of the process. There is [...]
Wed, April 29 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Grand Rounds is up at Six Until Me. Thanks to Kerri for hosting, and for such a creative presentation of the posts.
Wed, April 29 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I heard people on the radio talking about “the swine flew”, so I’m thinking now might be a good time to revisit the junior-year prom date that never happened.
Tue, April 28 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Ezra Klein posts a rundown of a new Kaiser/NPR poll (.pdf) on health care, from which he concludes:
This, I think, gets back to the need to change the behavior of doctors rather than consumers. Patients mainly know to ask for what their doctors tells them to ask for. That’s a bit less true in the [...]
Tue, April 28 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Rick Scott is many things, but he is most definitely not a wordsmith:
If this were Greek mythology, Obama’s Trojan Horse has taken shape in the form of the massive stimulus package and federal budget, and like the ancient soldiers who sacked Troy the pieces of socialized medicine are slowly assembling themselves inside the walls of [...]
Mon, April 27 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You should read this excellent story on cancer in the NY Times, but I want to point out a couple quotes that speak to points I have made here and there:
Advocacy groups have lobbied and directed research in ways that have not always advanced science.
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That does not help Ms. Kutt, who chafes at the way [...]
Fri, April 24 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
A few years ago I was in the throes of a severe flare, and none of my meds seemed to work. My gastro suggested something extreme: a liquid diet.
The plan was that I would eat no solid food and drink only Ensure Plus (and water) for a couple of months or more – however long [...]
Thu, April 23 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Trish Torrey has a post up about “Colin” – not his real name – a Canadian with Crohn’s disease:
Colin’s care requires 19 different doctors in any given year, so you can imagine how empowered he must be to coordinate all that care!
Why must he be the one to coordinate it all? Most [...]
Thu, April 23 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
This is a follow-up to this post, in my ongoing saga about trying to find a new doctor.
Last week I saw the second of two doctors I decided to check out. Dr. 1, you might recall, works at a community hospital near my house. Dr. 2 works at a fancy academic medical center nearby. By [...]
Wed, April 22 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
