Power to the Patient!
I’m thrilled to announce the Next Big Thing (for me anyway!): a full day workshop for doctors, patients, businesses, investors, governments – about the e–patient movement. I’ll deliver it anywhere there’s an audience.
Born of the constant encouragement people have given, it will be launched next month in Silicon Valley. Visit epatientdave.com/bootcamp for the full story.
Welcome to Grand Rounds for May 10, 2011!
I have a confession: I’m new at this. My initial exposure to Grand Rounds a while back gave me a warped view, and as I worked on this project, I was a little bit graceless. (Those of you who wrote to me about it know what I mean. I meant well…)
This week’s theme is the TEDx Maastricht conference that happened April 4. But first –
These news highlights were submitted:
There’s a “Grand Rounds” tradition in the medical blogosphere: every week a health related blogger picks a topic and asks other bloggers to write about it, or submit a post they wrote in the past. The host writes a blog post about the topic, and links to everyone else’s posts.
For instance, here’s the current week’s Grand Rounds, on International Health, and last week’s, on What Gives Your Work Meaning?
Kidney cancer patients, families, caregivers and activists are invited – free- to the fourth annual symposium presented by the Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, June 17. See www.epatientdave.com/Symposium.
Below I posted video of my speech at TEDx in the Netherlands. Throughout the day, Dutch medical magazine Medisch Contact interviewed speakers after their talks. Journalist and moderator Henk Maassen clearly knows his stuff – all his questions were relevant and meaningful.
I quite like where this interview went – everything from the nature of this work to its parallels with social movements from the Sixties and beyond. Thanks so much to TEDx and to Medisch Contact for doing this and making the videos freely available!
Specifically, this TEDx event was organized by Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. (Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands; in that country, “UMCs” are equivalent to America’s AMCs (academic medical centers).)
Footnotes:
I’ll be speaking Wednesday at Mass. General Hospital in Boston. The public is invited; 1 p.m. in O’Keeffe Auditorium. (Go in the main entrance (White Building) on Fruit Street and ask.) This post is mainly about Patient Safety Awareness Week.
Every year the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) sponsors Patient Safety Awareness Week, to raise awareness of the many issues that contribute to patient safety – and the many ways healthcare sometimes falls short. It’s a big deal: most people really don’t want to hear this, but thousands of people are accidentally killed in hospitals every month.
Most people don’t call it “killed,” but some do – what else do you call it when something is done by accident and a person dies?
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