Might patients hold the key to putting the brake on spiralling healthcare costs? If you had asked me that question a few days ago I’d have said no. We all […]
Year: 2010
Bruce Wade: Improving the quality of health communications
My longstanding interests in US health disparities, doctor patient interactions, and prostate cancer mortality made the 477th Salzburg Global Seminar of profound interest to me. It had a great impact on […]
Layla McCay: Down with paternalism; long live shared decision making
Paternalism is so last century. In this new era of patient centered care, the modern health professional knows the importance of involving patients in decisions about their care, particularly when […]
“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart: Back to the future: Tom Ferguson’s “e patients” emerge in shared decision-making
I’m an e-patient: empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled. Diagnosed in 2007 with late stage kidney cancer, I used the internet in every way possible to help my cause, in concert with […]
Biao Xu: Shared decision making in China
Involving and informing patients in decisions about their medical care is a very important issue since patients are one of the untapped resources in healthcare. But in low and middle […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 December 2010
JAMA 15 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2595 New England is a wonderful place: from its little towns a nation was born, full of the idiosyncracies of seventeenth century Britain. The […]
John Coggon: Organ donation and public ethics
Public healthcare is by definition everyone’s business. Yet there is considerable disagreement about who should take part in its development. This problem is most pronounced when the issue is one […]
Liz Wager: Can we immunise Brazilian science against fraud?
I’m in Sao Jose dos Campos, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on the last leg of BRISPE 1 – the First Brazilian meeting on Research Integrity, Science & Publication Ethics, which […]
Julian Sheather: On spouses and the right to self-determination
I recently attended a seminar concerned with human rights violations of women forced or coerced into sterilisation, a joint undertaking by the Open Society Institute and the International Federation of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 20 December 2010
JAMA 8 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2494 When cardiac troponin measurements came into use about a decade ago, it was immediately clear that they would change clinical practice and redefine […]