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006 – Interview: Surviving Cancer & Better Healthcare Through Being an e-Patient
2016-03-24
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In This Episode:
Dr. K talks with “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart, a co-founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Dave is a well-known advocate for improving healthcare by encouraging people to become “equipped, enabled, and empowered” when it comes to their own healthcare. They discuss:
- How getting information from an online patient community helped Dave survive a usually fatal cancer
- What is an “e-patient,” and why being proactive leads to better healthcare
- Why public access to health information is creating a sea change in the practice of medicine
- How the patients’ rights movement is creating a culture change that some doctors find threatening
- Why it’s better for patients and doctors to act as partners and “share the knowledge”
- Practical tips on getting more informed regarding your own (or your family member’s) healthcare
- What kinds of doctors to avoid, and how to get a second opinion
- e-Patient Dave’s books:
- Let Patients Help! A patient engagement handbook
- Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer (and what healthcare can learn from it)
- About the patient empowerment movement
- ePatient Dave: voice of the patient
- e-Patients.net blog
- Society for Participatory Medicine website
- Practical resources to participate more in healthcare
- Center for Advancing Health: Be A Prepared Patient
- How to Age Better by Optimizing Chronic Conditions: The Healthy Aging Checklist Part 4
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