Carol Jefferson’s right lung x-ray looked the color of a February storm in Northern Minnesota—a blizzard of white making bone and lung invisible. Her lung was “whited out” because she was experiencing a dangerous combination of tumor and infection…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)
There is a good debate starting up on a website called Prepared Patient Forum, about how much information patients should get when facing important medical decisions. You might want to click on this link and join in.
I want to share a wonderful blog post with you, written by one of “my” students, Laura Mortimer – a student in the Masters in Public Policy program at the Sanford School at Duke, who also happens to be a talented writer. In linking to her post, and then calling her my student, I of course…
Not long ago, I spoke with a freelance journalist, Charlotte Huff, who put together a really nice article in Cancer Today, describing how cancer patients can get more engaged in their care. I thought I would share a bit of that piece with you today: Gloria Full wasn’t surprised that the recommended chemotherapy regimen was aggressive….
Those of us who work in behavioral economics love discovering brain farts—cognitive biases and unconscious illusions that highlight the limitations of human nature. We enjoy uncovering hidden sources of irrationality — mental shortcuts that send people down the wrong paths.
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Before patients can become savvy consumers of healthcare, they need information about their healthcare choices. Too often, such information is nearly impossible to get, especially when it requires doctors to give patients useful statistics about things like treatment side effects. Since publishing Critical Decisions this fall, I have received a number of emails from readers who…
In this video, I talk about why doctors should talk to patients about out-of-pocket costs when evaluating treatment options.