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For reasons I’ll never understand, “unboxing videos” are a big thing these days: some geek will turn on a camcorder while they unpack some cool new gadget they just received. Examples: Unboxing the iPhone 4 (simplistic, unedited, 1:29), Xbox 360 Unboxing and Review (slick, fancy, edited, 5:58).

Well, my friend Mark Graban, author of the excellent healthcare improvement book Lean Hospitals, just received his copy of my new book Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pig (Amazon), and he was so excited he decided to do an unboxing video of it.

Enjoy. :–)

For more information see the book’s web pages. Thanks, Mark!

Speaker fees are how I fund my work, allowing me to do the research and learning that inform my talks, and allowing my participation on behalf of patients in policy meetings in Washington.

I want to be hired for more speaking engagements, so I’d like to share some feedback I just got.

Today I delivered the keynote address at the 13th annual ICSI/IHI Colloquium. ICSI is the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, and IHI is the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Both are magnificent organizations of smart caring people devoted to, well, Improvement. :–)

In the audience was Jim Conway MD, Senior VP of IHI, a tremendous speaker himself. Afterward, he wrote:

“Your content was great, your slides most impressive, and your delivery spectacular. I have no doubt – there are many in the room who are in a different place now because of you.”

That’s my purpose in every talk: to leave people in a different condition than when they walked in. My goal is to awaken new possibilities, speaking on behalf of patients everywhere – I’d even dare to say, I aim to leave people with a different view of life.

Kent Bottles MD, President of ICSI, followed up the next day with these kind words:

“e-Patient Dave gave the best keynote I have heard in years at the ICSI conference in the Twin Cities. If you want to learn and cry, book him.”

On May 12 on the ICSI blog Kent’s colleague Gary Oftedahl MD added:

“…shaking those of us in health care up to the need to pay attention, and ‘use’ the expertise and experiences of our patients.  I’ve heard no one in over 30 years in medicine who has so passionately and personally captured the essence of this powerful message”

If your organization would like to hire me:

• My schedule of appearances is here
• Videos of past talks are here
• Testimonials are here
• Contact information is here.

If you haven’t found him yet, Bertalan Meskó is one of the best new-generation doctors making the most of social media. While he was still a med student his ScienceRoll blog won Blogger’s Choice in 2007, and last month it won Medgadget’s prestigious Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog for the second year in a row. @Berci, as he’s known on Twitter, provides a glimpse of what healthcare will be like in the coming decades.

Now that he’s become an MD himself and is teaching, he’s taking it to the next step, inviting e-patients to talk directly to his students via two-minute YouTube videos. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything we do online, it’ll improve with experience.)

I was interviewed for the March issue of MM&M, a medical industry marketing magazine. The title they chose is “Visitor from the future.” Indeed – but this time traveler has millions of cousins.

As our country (and world) plan the next generation of healthcare, I urge people to look at what e-patients are doing – and use it as a lever, to improve care and economic efficiency. Heaven knows we could use it.

The article arose from a talk at the ePharma Summit in February. I was the guest of Klick Marketing, a Toronto company that develops superb web sites for consumer engagement, including patient engagement sites for drug companies. I spoke as the “voice of the patient,” within a keynote by Klick’s Brian O’Donnell about engaging with activated patients.

I wanted to make clear that although it seems futuristic, it’s real today. So the first words out of my mouth were “I’m here as a specimen from the future.” MM&M editor-in-chief Jim Chase was there , and this interview resulted.

Truly and literally, that future is here. The article cites that ACOR (my patient community) reaches 1.5 million patients a week, and that’s just one e-patient site; there are many more. (The Society for Participatory Medicine hopes to publish a list this year, to help people find peers.)

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