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Tessa Richards: Patients as cost savers?

December 23, 2010

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 […]

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Bruce Wade: Improving the quality of health communications

December 23, 2010

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 […]

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Layla McCay: Down with paternalism; long live shared decision making

December 23, 2010

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 […]

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“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart: Back to the future: Tom Ferguson’s “e patients” emerge in shared decision-making

December 23, 2010

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 […]

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Biao Xu: Shared decision making in China

December 23, 2010

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 […]

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