3 Tips to Get to Know Your Doctor
Here is a USA Weekend piece on the type of advice I give in Critical Decisions – how to make stronger connections with your doctor.
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Does Obamacare Interfere with the Doctor Patient Relationship?
ByadminQ: Much of the debate around health care reform has centered on whether the government or the individual will control health care decisions. Is that a valid argument? Most medical decisions are between clinicians and their patients, and will continue to be that way as the federal health reform law is implemented. Medicare bureaucrats aren’t…
The Limits of Patient Empowerment
ByadminThe video below is not super high quality, but it captures a talk I gave in Lima Peru recently, a very personal talk that also reveals some of the dangers of assuming that medical decision making will go swimmingly well as long as patients are informed and empowered. Check it out. (Click here to view…
Video Introduction to Critical Decisions
ByadminHere is my latest Critical Decisions video. This one gives a broad introduction to the reasons I wrote the book.
Shared Decision Making in Medicine
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Helping Your Doctor Help You: An Interview with Project Millennial (Part 2)
ByadminKARAN: You referred to patient education earlier, not just in terms of treatment information but also the types of questions to be asking. But what about the former? Our generation is definitely comfortable using technology to look up health information, and we get a ton of information through news, magazines, and the general media. But…