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Patients know what patients want to know.
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The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.
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Care
Inspiration
Motivation
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I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.
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Forums
Online
Forum
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Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
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Numbers
Website
Hospital
Sizes
Tumor
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I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.
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Online
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I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
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Engaged
Passive
Patient
Advocate
Partner
Recipient
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Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.
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Hospital
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In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine.
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Benefits
Defined
Medicine
Ultimate
Industries
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I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.
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Online
Patient
Communities
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Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
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Healthcare
Medicine
Please
Strategic
Steer
Define
Patients
Practical
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Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family?
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Available
Faster
Ipads
Possibility
Take Care
Tools
Family Health Your
Advance
Family Health Care
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Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
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Cascade
Damage
Intelligent
Reporters
Resulting
Secondary
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Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.
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Management
Staff
Hospital
Trained
Worrying
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I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.
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Technology
Care
Play
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Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?
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Cancer
Invader
Tissue
Tumor
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I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.
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Active
Empowered
Engaged
Equipped
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In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.
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Cost
Preference
Sensible
Chapter
Consumer
Industries
Patients
Prices
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Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.
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Depends
Medicine
Effective
Follows
Help People
Informed
Patients
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As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
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Capacity
Medicine
Time Work People
Apply
Work Time People
Hearts
Travels
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One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
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Assumption
Barriers
Empowerment
Methodical
Patient
Sequence
Smart
Stubborn
Taught
Carefully
Cultural
Professionals
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The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
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Burden
Choices
Valuable
Surge
Bear
Boomer
False
Forcing
Governments
Needless
Senseless
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Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna, and cranium; five metastases in my lungs; and muscle metastases in my thigh and tongue. Yet six months after diagnosis, my treatment ended: I've not had a drop of anything since.
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Lungs
Tongue
Treatment
Muscle
Diagnosed
Bone
Cell
Drop
Ended
Fractured
Grade
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