Power to the Patient!
Continuing the series started Friday – fourteen foundation truths to set the stage for the upcoming book Superpatients: Patients who extend science when medicine’s out of answers.
A frequent thread in superpatient (and e-patient) stories is when a doctor gives outdated advice about what information deserves our attention. Today’s principle builds on Principle 3, “It’s a myth that doctors can be counted on to know what’s dependable and nobody else can be.” Here’s #5:
The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. I’ll copy/paste here from the conference’s Patient Innovator Track page:
The following applicants have been invited to present their achievement on Wednesday, November 20: [Alphabetically by presenter’s name]
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Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019: I’m at the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network’s #MCSMN annual conference, where at 4 pm CT I’ll participate in this debate:
[Read more…]Resolved: Facebook’s disregard for user privacy should compel responsible hospitals to abandon the platform.
Sunday I wrote about the accelerating environmental changes I’m seeing, and how hard it’s become to think ahead. I wrote about a series of wire tree sculptures I saw in a shop that day, which instantly conveyed how it feels to push forward in that environment.
The next day I drove to Vermont to meet artist Randy Adams, selected this one and bought it. (Each sculpture is unique.) It’s perfect for the mood of the time: stiff, strong, resistant.
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One of my aphorisms in speeches is “If you live long enough, things change!” It always gets a laugh, but damn it’s true, and it’s happening faster and faster. So as I study the arriving future, I’m starting to feel like the severely windswept trees in the photo above. It is not pleasant, because how would you plan any campaign if all the rules were guaranteed to keep changing?
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Fifty years ago today, at Emmanuel College in Boston, a group of uppity women got together to talk about what was important to them about their health. Tomorrow night (Friday, May 10) some of them will gather again, with people from Suffolk University, which is taking over as Our Bodies Ourselves Today. (See that post.)
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