Are the principles of transparency and excellent patient care mutually exclusive? The authors examine a case history where a family caregiver and clinicians offer differing opinions on the wisdom of hospitals releasing online test results to inpatients in real time.
Read MoreAre the principles of transparency and excellent patient care mutually exclusive? The authors examine a case history where a family caregiver and clinicians offer differing opinions on the wisdom of hospitals releasing online test results to inpatients in real time.
Read MoreA family caregiver tells how she helped solve the mystery of her mother’s debilitating condition by persistently seeking out published studies and, on the fourth try, finding a surgeon who would listen to the patient and her advocate.
Read MoreRather than denigrating patients’ partial or complete self-diagnosis, clinicians should encourage, inform, and incorporate the patients’ process as a tool for arriving at the truth. Participatory diagnosis is better diagnosis.
Read MoreMood 24/7 is an innovation in traditional mood charting that uses text-messaging technology and may increase patient engagement and accuracy in reporting mood symptoms.
Read MoreAccording to a new survey, neurofibromatosis (NF) patients use NF-related social media for information gathering more than emotional support.
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