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CFAH Staff | February 1, 2012
Join @jessiegruman, Otis Brawley MD, Executive VP of ACS and other experts on Twitter today at 2PM with ABC's @DrRichardBesser for a Tweetchat about overtesting and overtreating in health care. Use hash tag #abcdrbchat.
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CFAH Staff | August 24, 2011
A new study shows that 21% of adult Americans delay seeking health care for reasons other than cost. In this collection, a doctor, a journalist, and a health care manager discuss the need for improved systems and candor to support better doctor-patient communication.
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CFAH Staff | August 16, 2011
Better Health's Grand Rounds is hosted this week by Dr. Ed Pullen, a board certified family physician practicing in Puyallup, WA. His medical blog provides an experienced family physician's viewpoint on medical news as well as giving interesting and helpful information to help patients be informed.
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CFAH Staff | July 26, 2011
This week's Grand Rounds collection of posts wrestles with conflicts of interest in reporting on evidence, obstacles to the delivery of evidence-based care, using evidence in practice and care decisions, and providing patient-centered care.
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CFAH Staff | July 20, 2011
We're hosting Grand Rounds for Better Health on Tuesday, July 26th. Grand Rounds is a collection of top recent health care blog posts. For this week's theme and submission instructions...
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CFAH Staff | July 7, 2011
Three physicians navigate the perplexing world of health behavior in this week's Inside Health Care round-up.
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CFAH Staff | June 27, 2011
New research on use of Kaiser Permanente's patient portal points to a widening digital divide for populations with limited education, health literacy or for certain ethnic/minority groups.
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CFAH Staff | June 23, 2011
The WSJ Health Journal looks at the pros and cons of taking a multivitamin.
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CFAH Staff | June 17, 2011
Sara Collins of the Commonwealth Fund and veteran health care journalist Trudy Lieberman look at how the Affordable Care Act is and is not helping young adults stay covered.
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CFAH Staff | June 16, 2011
Watchful waiting is more than 'doing nothing.' We've collected recent blogs on prostate cancer & watchful waiting from Laura Newman at Patient POV, the NYTimes New Old Age blog, and Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.
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CFAH Staff | June 14, 2011
In The New York Times This Life column, 'You Look Great and Other Lies', Bruce Feiler shares what he learned after his diagnosis and treatment for bone cancer. Bruce describes the gestures and words that are helpful and offers cautions about what not to say/do when someone you care about is ill.
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CFAH Staff | June 13, 2011
This week's roundup includes patients discussing their experiences with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, scoliosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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CFAH Staff | June 7, 2011
In The Wall Street Journal's Informed Patient column, Laura Landro notes various efforts hospitals are taking to prevent re-admissions, including Boston University Medical Center's use of a virtual nurse named Louise.
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CFAH Staff | June 2, 2011
Being actively engaged in your health care means understanding how the care you are receiving will benefit you. We expect the care we receive and the health advice we are offered to be evidence based, using the best research available. Journalists, a researcher, and a doctor call attention to common practices where evidence is lacking.
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CFAH Staff | May 24, 2011
Consumer Reports warns us to be aware of unregulated dietary supplements and provides some valuable resources for people considering taking supplements or who currently do.
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CFAH Staff | May 17, 2011
We received more than 40 contributions for this week's collection of health care blogs and columns. Patients, clinicians, policy wonks and interesting folks with opinions submitted original posts that are sure to expand your thinking and perspectives.
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CFAH Staff | May 10, 2011
We're hosting Grand Rounds for Better Health on Tuesday, May 17th. Grand Rounds is a curated collection of top recent health care blog posts. Please submit any blog contributions for the May 17th Grand Rounds to grandrounds@cfah.org by Sunday, May 15th. We look forward to hearing from you, and be sure to check out our collection for Grand Rounds here on the Prepared Patient Forum, What It Takes, blog on May 17th.
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CFAH Staff | May 5, 2011
Many consider medicine just as much of an art as a science. How you communicate with your clinician and how your clinician communicates with you can affect your care.
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CFAH Staff | May 2, 2011
Following our most recent Prepared Patient feature article, Dr. Steve Novella of the Science Based Medicine blog and Dr. Oz on The Dr. Oz Show explore a similar issue.
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CFAH Staff | April 19, 2011
There appears to be no area that social media cannot soak through to: farming, politics, dating, death and even taxes. It comes as no surprise then that social media has diffused into the world of health care. Clinicians, researchers, patients and hospital CEOs are blogging, tweeting and sending Facebook messages. This post reveals some of the recent dialogue on the web surrounding social media and its use by health care professionals.
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CFAH Staff | April 15, 2011
A new report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that half of U.S. adults take vitamins and other dietary supplements.
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CFAH Staff | April 12, 2011
Doctors and an executive vice president share experiences of over-testing and over-treatment in medicine and propose solutions to alleviate the problem by using you.
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CFAH Staff | March 21, 2011
It's all the little things that make caring for yourself or the one's you love with an illness that much more challenging. People with diabetes, MS and Rheumatoid Arthritis share their experiences in this patient blog roundup.
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CFAH Staff | March 18, 2011
When you've been to one clinic or hospital, you have been to one clinic or hospital. Each operates differently and expects patients to take on different roles and responsibilities, which are rarely explained.
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CFAH Staff | March 11, 2011
A TIME article this week reveals new research that 'doctors who are more empathetic actually have healthier patients.' More on empathy and its role in health outcomes.....
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CFAH Staff | March 8, 2011
A blog round-up on the importance of building relationships with patients---starting early with medical students. Hospital administrators and specialists also weigh in with solutions.
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CFAH Staff | March 4, 2011
This week's roundup features the patient voices of Brad Wright and Monte Jaffe and the decisions they made when faced with expensive health care costs.
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CFAH Staff | February 10, 2011
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CFAH Staff | February 9, 2011
This week's roundup features the five nominees for the 2010 Medical Weblog Award for Best Patient Blog: Wheelchair Kamikaze Marc Stecker, Lisa Emrich from Brass and Ivory, Diabetes Mine's Amy Tendrich, Dispatch From Second Base by Jackie Fox, and Dean from Dean's Stroke Musings.
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CFAH Staff | February 8, 2011
Checklists are not just for rocket launches. Family doctor, Dr. Davis Liu, Rep. Giffords' trauma surgeon, Dr. Randall Friese, former hospital CEO, Dr. Paul Levy, and a fifth year medical student, Ishani Ganguli, post on the importance of using checklists to promote patient safety. A new British Medical Journal study agrees.
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CFAH Staff | January 28, 2011
Pediatric specialist, Dr. Bryan Vartabedian MD, writes about a time when he forgot to introduce himself to a new patient and on the Patient Empowerment Blog, Trisha Torrey recognizes the problem with the lack of identification in the clinical setting, and reflects deeper on the issue of patient safety.
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CFAH Staff | January 27, 2011
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Patient Perspectives | January 19, 2011
This week's roundup features a collection of patient voices from around the web including: Winner of the reality TV show the Amazing Race, Nat Strand, RA Warrior Kelly Young, and alias blogger WarmSocks.
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Conversation Continues | January 14, 2011
CNN's Empowered Patient also focused on emergency rooms in their January 13th article Don't Die Waiting in the ER .More articles and features in Elizabeth Cohen's Empowered Patient series can be found here.
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Conversation Continues | January 12, 2011
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Patient Perspectives | January 10, 2011
This week's roundup features a collection of patient voices from around the web including: DiabetesMine's Amy Tenderich, D-Mom Leighann Calentine, and a perspective on shared decision making.
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Conversation Continues | January 6, 2011
Two new books, examine the pseudoscience that created a controversy over vaccine safety, Dr. David Gorski, offers a review on science-based medicine, Andrew Wakefield's study linking autism to MMR vaccines continues to be dismantled and BMJ's Brian Deer compares diagnoses in Wakefield's study to hospital records.
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CFAH Staff | December 23, 2010
An inside look at the cost of health care: a physician confused by the transparency of Medicare reimbursements and a patient in San Francisco unable to afford treatment for an enlarged prostate.
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CFAH Staff | December 21, 2010
A collection of patient voices from around the web. This week's roundup includes: Christine Miserandino & e-Patient Dave on The Spoon Theory, Amy Tenderich with gift advice, and WarmSocks on keeping an emergency supply of meds.
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CFAH Staff | December 15, 2010
Sometimes, the best way to progress isn't to advance to step up with more money, more technology, more modernity. It's to retreat.
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CFAH Staff | December 8, 2010
Jim Sabin, MD, offers his take on Dr. Seifter's insights about living with a chronic illness.
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CFAH Staff | December 3, 2010
A collection of patient voices from around the web. This week's roundup includes: Dr. Julian Seifter on living with diabetes, RA Warrior Kelly Young, Jim Stanicki on Trisha Torrey's Patient Empowerment Blog, Cynthia Lott Vogel on e-Patients.net, and one patient's expensive visit to the ER.
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CFAH Staff | December 1, 2010
Gary Switzer's post on the Health News Review blog reminds us once again of potential conflicts between physician/pharma and consumer interests.
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CFAH Staff | November 30, 2010
Doctors, lawyers, researchers, and hospital CEOs all have something to say these days about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). A collection of web posts includes: Frank Pasquale with Concurring Opinions, Anna D. Sinaiko and Meredith B. Rosenthal in The New England Journal of Medicine's November Perspectives, Vince Kuratis on The Health Care Blog, Jim Sabin on KevinMD, and Paul Levy on Running a Hospital.
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Inside Health Care | November 24, 2010
KevinMD hosts a range of clinicians who comment on the electronic medical record. Guests include: Dr. Christopher Johnson, pediatric intensive care doc, who blogs on ChristopherJohnsonMD; Jared Sinclair R.N., an ICU nurse and pre-medical student, who blogs at jaredsinclair + com; and Angienadia M.D., a Yale intern, who blogs at Primary DX. Read what they have to say about EMRs.
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CFAH Staff | November 22, 2010
A collection of patient voices from around the web. This week's roundup includes: Red Maxwell, founder of the online diabetes community juvenation.org, D-Mom Leighann Calentine, patient empowerment advocate Trisha Torrey, and WarmSocks from "infinity-itis".
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CFAH Staff | November 12, 2010
Slate picks up on news about the recent Lung Cancer CT Scan study, which was also covered by Gary Schwitzer and others, in this Explainer column: Full-Body Scam: Should you ask your doctor to CT scan you from head to toe?
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Inside Health Care | November 12, 2010
A collection of professional voices from around the web including Dr. Herbert Mathewson in The Health Care Blog, Dr. Kevin Pho of KevinMD.com, and Dr. Rob Lamberts on his blog, Musings of a Distractible Mind. These highlight the patient experience from a professional perspective and the power of touch.
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CFAH Staff | November 11, 2010
A collection of patient voices from around the web. This week's roundup includes: Dana Jennings of the New York Times, RA Warrior Kelly Young, Leighann Calentine from D-Mom Blog: the Sweet Life with a Diabetic Child, and the Patient Empowerment Blog's Trisha Torrey.
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CFAH Staff | November 10, 2010
Two new posts by Gary Schwitzer on the Health News Review Blog this week. One on the promotion of CT screening after the release of the recent Lung Cancer CT scan study and the other on new investigative reporting by ProPublica. Both evolving health stories that touch on key hot health care reform debates: Comparative effectiveness research, entitlement programs, marketing to the public, and more.
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Inside Health Care | November 8, 2010
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Inside Health Care | October 29, 2010
The increasing presence (sometime hidden) of advertisers in health care websites - including the new Sharecare - was discussed this week by healthcare journalists Gary Schwitzer and Pia Christensen, Dr. Elaine Schattner, M.D. and marketer and advertiser Dan Dunlop
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CFAH Staff | October 28, 2010
This week's collection of patient perspectives includes Patient Power's Andrew Schorr, Leighann Calentine of D-Mom Blog, e-Patient Dave, and RA Warrior Kelly Young.
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CFAH Staff | October 25, 2010
This week's collection of patient perspectives includes DCPatient's Donna Cryer, Amy Tenderich from Diabetes Mine, Kelly Young the RA Warrior, author Paula Span, and Patient Power's Andrew Schorr.
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CFAH Staff | October 22, 2010
A new commentary by Peter Frishauf, Fixing Those Damn Lies, has been posted on epatients.net that follows up on Monday's post about Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science, an article in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly. e-Patient Dave advises us to be sure to read Peter's footnotes.
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CFAH Staff | October 15, 2010
A collection of patient voices from around the web. This week's roundup includes: pediatrician, blogger and mother of two Wendy Swanson, aka Seattle Mama Doc (http://seattlemamadoc.seattlechildrens.org/); Kelly Young, the RA Warrior (http://rawarrior.com/); and Amy Tendrich of Diabetes Mine (http://www.diabetesmine.com/).
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CFAH Staff | October 13, 2010
In his most recent blog, "How to Pick Good Health Insurance - Your Life Depends on It," Dr. Davis Liu emphasizes how important is it for us to evaluate carefully our health insurance plans. Liu points out that, unlike other companies or products whose efficacy may impact our lives modestly ' your car wash, dry cleaners and choice of movie theater ' the ranking of your health insurance plan relative to others impacts your life greatly. And not all health plans are created equal.
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