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December 15, 2017 By e-Patient Dave 4 Comments

Notes for NAM’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience

Infographic from NAM with key statistics on clinician wellbeing
Infographic from NAM with key statistics on clinician wellbeing

I’m participating today as a “consumer/patient” voice in a meeting on clinician burnout, part of a project of the National Academy of Medicine. I was going to be there in person but a bad and contagious coughing cold kept me home, so I’m watching and listening remotely.

Remote participants often don’t get as much chance to speak up, so I’m doing what empowered people do: find another way to get heard.:-)


Burnout is important to me, because I’m deeply grateful to the highly trained people who saved my life 11 years ago, and I want them to have a good life. But look at the statistics in the project’s infographic here. It drives me nuts (and makes me sad) that the doctors and nurses who put in all those years of training, and gained their years of experience, are so often unhappy with their working life.

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Filed Under: Health policy, Participatory Medicine 4 Comments

September 28, 2017 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

Essential e-patient training: the uncertainty of all information

Pexels.com – Creative Commons CC0 license

Below is a long comment I posted Wednesday on my neighbor @KevinMD’s blog. (Most of his widely read blog is articles he’s found elsewhere; he’s cross-posted some of mine.)

The post I replied to is a thoughtful submission by two grad students (one business school, one med school).  Their thoughts are valid but as you’ll see, the issue isn’t apps – this is part of a broader issue that every engaged patient (you!) should understand. Here’s my reply.

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Filed Under: Culture change, decision making, Participatory Medicine, Uncategorized 1 Comment

July 26, 2017 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

New essay in the Patient Experience Journal on “the paradigm of patient”

Essay in Patient Experience Journal's special issue on Patient InvolvementSeveral of you have commented that I started a series this spring on the evolution of my business and my advocacy over the past eight years, and then it stopped. Well, it hasn’t stopped, but the work itself has collided with the reporting about it.

I have a new essay, just published today, in Patient Experience Journal, which brings together a ton of interwoven issues I’ve been reading and thinking about: The paradigm of patient must evolve: Why a false sense of limited capacity can subvert all attempts at patient involvement.  It’s in that journal’s first Special Issue, devoted to patient involvement in producing healthcare.

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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement 3 Comments

June 28, 2017 By e-Patient Dave 6 Comments

Video: What do empowered and engaged really mean?

Short link to this post: dave.pt/empoweredengaged or bit.ly/empoweredengaged

After talking to people for months about this same important question, I decided to get modern and post it on the internet. :-)  8½ minute video – slides with narration. (Email subscribers, click the headline to come online and watch.)

Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, public speaking 6 Comments

January 3, 2017 By e-Patient Dave 10 Comments

Ten years ago today: “Dave, there’s something in your lung”

Adapted from a slide I use in many speeches
Adapted from a slide I use in my keynotes

Some moments stick in your memory in vivid, multi-sensory recall. This blog post is dated ten years after such a moment.

Today I can still see the clock digits on my Sony desk phone when it rang at precisely 9:00 a.m. It was my primary care physician, Dr. Danny Sands. I’d had my annual physical on 12/29, and as a follow-up for a stiff shoulder, on January 2 I’d had an x-ray from one of the Boston Red Sox team physicians.

Patients around the world have told me they can relate to what happened when I answered the phone: what Dr. Sands said changed my life in an instant.

Dave, your shoulder’s going to be fine – it’s just a rotator cuff problem. But there’s something in your lung, and we need to find out what it is.

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Filed Under: Health policy, Participatory Medicine, patient engagement 10 Comments

December 6, 2016 By e-Patient Dave 10 Comments

Taxonomy of Burden – potent visualization of patient experience of illness & treatment

Taxonomy of Burden diagram
Click to open downloadable high-resolution PDF in another window.

Response to this on social media has been very strong. Why? 

At conferences people are always asking how to comprehend what policy people call “patient experience.” Too often they think it’s things like “Was the food good? Did we smile for you? Was parking easy?” This diagram may help change that.


Have you ever been given instructions by a clinician that are really hard for you to follow? Have you ever thought to yourself, “Don’t they know I have a life? And I have to take care of my sick mother, too, and my car broke down, and…?”

And then for many of us there are all the complications of managing multiple conditions.

Lots of people talk about the burden of a disease, but what about the burden of treatment – when the treatment itself makes life more difficult? How ironic, when the whole point of care was to make life better?

I first heard about this issue from the Mayo Clinic’s Victor Montori when we both spoke last January at Maine Quality Counts.  (I blogged his slides and speech video: Careful and Kind Care for our Complex Patients.)

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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, Patient-centered thinking 10 Comments

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