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April 14, 2022 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

Patient engagement in glaucoma: new speech to medical librarians

This is my second speech to NNLM, the Network of the National Library of Medicine. As I said in announcing the first one,

Medical librarians (“medlibs”) have always been a magical resource, to me, because in addition to helping researchers and medicos, they can help ordinary people dig up information they need but don’t know where to find. It’s truly empowering.

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Filed Under: Glaucoma, patient engagement Tagged With: blindness, eye drops, glaucoma, home tonometry, patient empowerment, patient engagement, tonometry 1 Comment

November 15, 2021 By e-Patient Dave 9 Comments

Time to practice what I preach, again: this time it’s glaucoma.

I have a new diagnosis. This post starts with a little history for context.


Ten years ago, three years into evangelizing patient engagement based on my kidney cancer story, I posted Time to practice what I preach: I have skin cancer again. Noting the pattern that highly engaged patients everywhere follow, I blogged that it was time to …

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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech Tagged With: eye pressure, glaucoma, iop, ophthalmology, patient empowerment, patient engagement, tonometry 9 Comments

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