Links for my AANP presentation

A quick update – earlier this month I posted about presenting at the AANP convention (American Association of Nurse Practitioners) in Nashville. Here are links to the sites I mentioned. (I love it when people ask because they want to take action!) 

• Society for Participatory Medicine
  • Website: ParticipatoryMedicine.org
  • Blog: http://e-patients.net
  • Journal: http://jopm.org

• The patient community I joined: ACOR.org (now mostly migrated to www.SmartPatients.com)

• My website www.epatientdave.com
  • Many resources are on the site’s tabs
  • My book Let Patients Help www.epatientdave.com/let-patients-help
  • My TED Talk http://on.TED.com/ePatientDave

• Surgeon Jon White MD’s post on “More than half of everyone who’s ever been 65 is alive today” (Actually he says it’s >65%!)  http://www.generalsurgerynews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Opinions+%26+Letters&d_id=77&i=January+2013&i_id=923&a_id=22371

• Khan Academy www.KhanAcademy.org
  • Health & Medicine topics: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine
  • The “Flip the Clinic” initiative with Robert Wood Johnson http://fliptheclinic.org/

• 45 vintage sexist ads that wouldn’t go down well today www.amusingplanet.com/2010/09/45-vintage-sexist-ads-that-wouldnt-go.html

• IOM’s 2012 report Best Care at Lower Cost, which says “patient-clinician partnerships” with “engaged, empowered patients” are one of the cornerstones of the future of healthcare http://dave.pt/bestcarelowercost

• BMJ:
  • My essay “How the e-patient community saved my life” http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1990
  • BMJ announces its patient partnership initiative www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3726