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Paul Buchanan: Words can also hurt me

October 21, 2016

Words. As we look ahead to an increasingly connected and interconnected world, how do we, as clinicians and patients, account for the words we use? How do we record the […]

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Sharon Roman: I am the girl next door

October 21, 2016

I flatter myself that the wedding ring on my finger does not stop the opposite sex from finding me attractive and noticing me. On good days, I am able to appear […]

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Polly Moyer: On balance, we’re making progress

October 18, 2016

Balance Awareness Week (BAW) 2016 recently took place. Given that I have to co-exist with a rare condition that affects my balance I can’t say that I was an impartial […]

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Paul Buchanan: What are we meant to eat?

October 10, 2016

The devil is in the detail, so the saying goes, and the detail has been supplied by decades of peer-reviewed and published research which told us all that fat is […]

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Paul Buchanan: Social media and the patient experience

September 30, 2016

The creation of the Diabetes Online Community, #gbdoc, in 2012 was a consequence of my diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes. Previously a stranger to the “health” world there was now an […]

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Matthias Wienold: Think of sepsis—a patient’s perspective

September 30, 2016

The case for increased attention to and better management of sepsis is growing. As the first World Sepsis Congress convincingly demonstrated, international and national healthcare authorities, NGOs, policy makers, clinical […]

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Paul Wicks: Google’s Deepmind health group invites patient participation 

September 26, 2016

In the aftermath of some difficult questions posed by privacy advocates around the Royal Free’s pilot of Deepmind’s Streams app, this week Deepmind Health invited over 120 patients, patient advocates, […]

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Paul Buchanan: No decision about me without me

September 23, 2016

Many are the conversations, opinions, statements, and arguments within the patient world about the meaning of that phrase “No decision about me without me”—but what does it actually mean, and […]

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Simon McGrath: PACE trial shows why medicine needs patients to scrutinise studies about their health

September 22, 2016

Like all patients, what I want most from clinical research is treatments that work, not ones that merely look good on paper. As The BMJ has pointed out, patients are […]

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Matthias Wienold: Patient safety—when patients take centre stage

September 21, 2016

It is a rare moment for most physicians to engage with patients beyond the professional encounter. Some friends may become our patients, and sometimes patients can become friends—few physicians, however, […]

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