This is a question being discussed these days through social networking sites — you know, those Facebook and Twitter and MySpace and Plaxo and LinkedIn and Ning and other sites where you can carry on conversations with “virtual” strangers…. So I’m curious. Have you sought health information through social networking? Do you Twitter? or have […]
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I’ve written many times before about electronic medical records, personal health records and privacy. They can’t effectively be used in the same sentence unless you bring up oil and water, too. They just don’t mix. An incident right here in my office spawned this post. Twice in the past week, a stranger’s medical records have
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Ted Eytan, MD, a patient empowerment advocate and a fellow Tweeple provided a heads up about a clip from 30 Rock which all us non-medical professionals can relate to. It’s brought to us by Hulu: Have you had this experience? Is negative a positive? Or is positive a negative? Isn’t this just a great example
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Betsy McCaughey, director of RID (Reduce Hospital Deaths) reminds us in her latest Wall Street Journal article that those hospital germs, the ones that cause death and debilitation, are everywhere. In her most recent article, she points to doctors’ and nurses’ scrubs, coats, ties — their clothing. MRSA, C.Diff. and other infectious pathogens cling to
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Not sure what it looks like where you live, but it’s cold outside where I live in Upstate NY, and we’ve got plenty of the white stuff on the ground. Whereas some friends might curl up with a good book, I tend to gravitate to puzzles and thought provokers when I’m indoors and have some
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I was excited to hear that the new secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, was reaching out to the American people for input on what a reformed healthcare system would look like. Imagine — asking the people who must participate. What a unique and exciting concept! That was… until I actually went to
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Seven out of ten of the people who read this post will nod their heads in understanding. You’re sick, or you hurt. You need to see your primary care doctor as soon as possible. You call to make an appointment, in hopes you’ll be seen within the next few hours — but NO. Not gonna
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Shannon Brownlee, the author of Overtreated, manages to rearrange my perspective from time to time. She takes the facts I have learned, or the concepts I study, and makes me see them in an entirely different light. I may not always agree with her! But I never fail to learn plenty. This recent article penned
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