Tweeted by @SeattleMamaDoc
"Can a Patient Teach Medical School?"
http://33charts.com/2014/10/patient-teach-medical-school.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+33Charts+%2833+Charts%29The Mayo Clinic announced that e-Patient Dave deBronkart would serve as the 2015 Visiting Professor
the patient voice in medical education has received recent attention from the education community through Stanford’s Medical Education in the New Millennium
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Tweeted by @ElaineSchattner
@ePatientDave TY for pointing out that anti-patient rant. It's among the most offensive pieces I've read on pharma & health care priorities.
The Problem with Patient Power
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidgrainger/2014/11/03/the-problem-with-patient-power/Of course, like all such trends the importance of patient action groups will eventually fade. Once every possible cause has an equally well-oiled media machine, the impact of any individual special interest declines back to baseline.
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Tweeted by @rzeiger
"A conversation with Abraham Verghese"
http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2015spring/time-lines.htmlI get impatient with physician essays that revolve around a physician encountering medicine as a patient, often for the first time. And with it comes suddenly this epiphany about life and the nature of medicine. And I always think, “Really? It took that experience for you to understand this?
a sense of this being hallowed ground. You’re entering sacred space and given the great privilege to see people in distress and to treat.
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Tweeted by @Atul_Gawande
"The Importance of Sitting With Patients"
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/the-importance-of-sitting-with-patients/?_r=1On some level, though, efficiency-empathy trade-offs are an inevitable and inherent tension in medicine — a function of busy hospitals with complex patients and limited personnel and resources. But I wonder also if this is a trade-off we too readily accept and whether the pendulum has swung too far toward the alter of efficiency.
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"Less Medicine, More Health from Dr. Gilbert Welch"
http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2015/03/less-medicine-more-health-from-dr-gilbert-welch.htmlI take great pleasure in introducing this very surprising video, based on an equally surprising (and highly entertaining) new book, Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, who taught us all so much in his last book, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health.