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May 4, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 17 Comments

The problem with “herd immunity” as a COVID-19 strategy

Caution: This post is not a prediction. It’s just a tutorial about the concept of herd immunity, with an eye to why it’s probably not an approach the US wants to take in solving the complex problems we’ve gotten ourselves into with COVID-19.

Click this graphic to go see a six second animation of these images, created in 2017 by Reddit user TheOtherEdmund. You many need to watch a few times. Get a feel for the differences in what happens in the different blocks, and come back to discuss:


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Filed Under: Coronavirus, Health policy Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, herd immunity 17 Comments

April 26, 2020 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Semmelweis: The gross, tragic story of when humanity learned handwashing saves lives

On Saturday I heard a podcast that gave me a deeper, more sobering version of a story I heard years ago: the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who figured out that he could stop killing women (in obstetrics) by washing his hands. Of course they tie it to how important handwashing is in fighting COVID-19, and why.


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April 21, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

Tech-savvy patients: enter the “Patient Innovator Track” at FHIR DevDays!

Deadline Friday, May 22: See timeline below, learn more on the track page, then submit your application. Prizes, fame, community!

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Filed Under: FHIR, Health data, Innovation, Patient-centered tech, Patient-centered thinking 3 Comments

April 19, 2020 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Please support this health data victim’s legal fees

This post is an unusual project for me, and not everyone will want to do it, but I know some will want to pitch in, and maybe someone out there will have a magic wand to undo the harm that’s apparently been done by years of stonewalling.

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April 13, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 10 Comments

Why I no longer trust most virus statistics

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April 8, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

A decade advocating for OpenNotes

Today in an email thread I realized it’s a decade since the OpenNotes work started, via Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker, and now promoted so brilliantly by Liz Salmi. How great that back then my PCP Danny Sands and I were among the first crew of OpenNotes study participants!

I decided to mark the occasion by creating an /OpenNotes page on my site, listing all the blog posts and articles that have emerged as part of the work.

(Interesting to observe: before cancer rearranged my life, I don’t think I ever stuck with any cause for ten years straight. Funny how that happens.)

Filed Under: Advisory work, Culture change, Health data, Health policy, Innovation, Leadership, patient engagement 1 Comment

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