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The Doctor Becomes The Patient: Lessons Learned From Wearing A Gown
By Kevin Campbell MD First Posted on his blog on 10/17/2012 Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC Physicians are terrible patients. That fact is one of the few absolutes in medicine. I can remember developing an...
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3 Female Digital Health CEOs You Should Know, In Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
By Amy Puliafito First Posted at Rock Health on 10/18/2012 Amy Puliafito, Marketing & Media at Rock Health Tuesday, October 16th was Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to supporting the...
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The Granny Plan
Elaine Waples It’s no surprise that Americans are tilting the scales in the wrong direction. We are straining our waistlines and health coverage beyond the limits. Unfortunately we live in a culture...
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“Play it Again Sam”: As Time (And Life) Goes By
By Kevin Campbell MD First Posted on his blog on 11/11/2012 Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC One of the most memorable scenes from the classic Humphrey Bogart movie Casablanca is when Ingrid Bergman turns...
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Tattoo You
By Lisa Suennen First Posted at Venture Valkyrie on 11/14/2012 Lisa Suennen, The Venture Valkyrie A week or so ago my family went out for dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant. Upon entering, the...
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A Real Face on the Fiscal Cliff
William H. Bestermann Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln William Bestermann MD Saturday was a very unusual day. Christmas...
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The most unheralded posts of 2012
by Kenny Lin First posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on 12/22/2012 Kenny Lin, MD, The Common Sense Family Doctor It is customary for bloggers to highlight their most popular posts at year’s end...
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Sharing Bad News With Your Children–This Is Not the Dark Ages
by Rhona Finkel First posted on HealthWorks Collective on 01/07/2013 Rhona Finkel, health writer & blogger Last week I received the following question: “I’m undergoing tests to determine if my...
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PSA testing: excerpts from a roundtable discussion
by Kenny Lin First posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on 01/05/2013 Kenny Lin, MD, The Common Sense Family Doctor Last fall, the editor of the Journal of Lancaster General Hospital invited me to...
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More on Conflicts of Interest Among Cancer Doctors
by Tom Emerick First posted on Cracking Health Costs on 01/17/2013 Tom Emerick, Host of Cracking health Care Costs Conflicts of interest are ubiquitous in health care. In short, most doctors make more...
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How Can Care Management Respond to Patients’ Spiritual Concerns?
By Dr. Jaan Sidorov First Posted at Disease Management Care Blog on 3/28/2013 Dr. Jaan Sidorov, host of Disease Management Care Blog The Disease Management Care Blog remembers her well. She knew it was...
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Potential Cancer Care Improvement—Maybe
By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 4/9/2013 Tom Emerick, Host of Cracking Health Care Costs Ron Winslow wrote a thoughtful piece for the WSJ on a potentially promising...
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Twitter Community #BCSM Expands Online To Broaden Patient Engagement
By Dan Munro First Posted at Forbes on 3/31/2013 Dan Munro, contributor, Forbes Last week, the ongoing twitter conversation under the hashtag #BCSM officially expanded online in support of the global...
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How a Real Writer Dies
By Michael Millenson First Posted at The Health Care Blog on 4/10/2013 Michael Millenson, President of Health Quality Advisors True to his proudly claimed Chicago newspaperman roots, famed movie critic...
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Breast cancer and the Angelina Jolie effect
By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 5/15/2013 Kenny Lin, MD, The Common Sense Family Doctor There is nothing like a celebrity to call attention to a preventable disease,...
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Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
By Dr. Joseph Kvedar First Posted at The cHealth Blog on 5/22/2013 Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director of the Center for Connected Health This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google...
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Big Government Opens Big Database For Cancer Research
by Dan Munro First posted on Forbes 7/17/2013 Dan Munro, Healthcare journalist, contributor at Forbes For those of us without degrees in molecular biology, the idea of “personalized medicine” – or PM –...
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Should you be screened for lung cancer? Maybe not, and here’s why
By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 7/29/2013 Kenny Lin, MD, The Common Sense Family Doctor If you are a lifelong heavy smoker age 55 years or older, the U.S. Preventive...
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Cancer-free woman undergoes chemotherapy after false diagnosis—part 2
by Thomas Emerick via Cracking Health Costs on 7/19/2013 Tom Emerick, Host of Cracking Health Costs Yesterday I posted a story about a woman who was given a false diagnosis of cancer which nearly...
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The Obesity – Cancer Connection
By Dov Michaeli Dov Michaeli, MD, PhD, TDWI Writer’s Group Lots of publications have been pointing out that obesity is somehow connected to cancer. Obese women are more prone to breast cancer than...
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