July 22nd, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Uncategorized
Tags: News
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Not to be outdone by the exciting July 29th DC medblogger conference, or Medgadget’s new Medpolitics site, Scienceblogs (the sister site of Seed Magazine) is sponsoring a meet-and-greet on August 9th in New York City. If you’d like to attend – and meet some of your favorite science bloggers in person – please send an email to: nycmeetup@scienceblogs.com
Beer and swag, science and reason, talented writers, and my favorite city… All just one Chinatown bus ride away.
Hope to see you there!
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
July 22nd, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Uncategorized
Tags: Cancer, Grand Rounds
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Dr. Allen Roberts, Emergency Medicine physician and pillar of the medical blog establishment (he won the award for best medical blog in 2004) is hosting the 200th edition of Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a weekly summary of the best of the medical blogosphere, hosted by a different medical blogger each week. If you haven’t discovered it yet, please look out for your weekly edition.
Dr. Roberts uses a delightful economy of words in this fast paced summary – and he included my interview with Bob Schieffer about bladder cancer.
Please check it out.
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
July 17th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Uncategorized
Tags: News, Research
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I’m really looking forward to this medical blog meeting in DC. Here is the media release – I hope to see you there!
On Tuesday, July 29, the Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere become mainstream. In the health policy arena, we now see policymakers, journalists, researchers and interest groups utilizing this new media tool to deliver information to their audiences.
The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the first cabinet officer to author an official blog, followed by a moderated discussion with a variety of health policy bloggers and a media analyst.
Questions to be explored with the panelists include: Why do individuals and organizations blog? How does blogging impact the broader work of an organization? Are there different standards used when blogging versus other writing? Have blogs impacted the news business significantly? What kind of influence are blogs having on political and policy debates?
Welcome and Introduction Drew Altman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Family Foundation
Keynote Address The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Panel Discussion Vicky Rideout (moderator) Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation and Director, Kaiser Forum on Health Journalism and the News Business
Jacob Goldstein, Wall Street Journal
Michael Cannon, Cato Institute
Ezra Klein, American Prospect Magazine
John McDonough, Office of Senator Edward Kennedy and formerly of Health Care for All in Massachusetts
Tom Rosenstiel, Center for Excellence in Journalism
WHEN: Tuesday, July 29, lunch served at 12:30 p.m. and program begins at 1:00 p.m. Add this event to your Outlook Calendar (Please note that all times are ET). WHERE: Barabara Jordan Conference Center , 1330 G Street, NW , Washington , DC . For those who cannot attend, the event will be webcast live. RSVP: If you plan to attend the event, please send your name and affiliation to rsvp@kff.org.
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
June 11th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Humor, Uncategorized
Tags: Politics
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Tom Daschle’s opening comment at the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease conference:
One time I was introduced as a model politician, model South Dakotan, and a model husband. My wife looked up the definition of “model” in the dictionary and it read, “A small replica of the real thing.” I don’t aspire to be a model anymore.
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
May 27th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Uncategorized
Tags: Relationships
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Faithful readers of my blog will recall my effusive praise of my family physician, Dr. Alan Dappen. He is boldly going where few physicians have gone before – offering affordable care to the masses with a transparent fee structure and access to him via phone and email. How is it possible? This is what a doctor can afford to do when he has almost no overhead – he doesn’t have to pay multiple staff to transcribe coding and billing or fill out reems of documentation to satisfy third party payers. He doesn’t have to see patients in person to fill a prescription or otherwise change their management (because payment is not contingent upon a physical exam). No, he gets paid for what the patient actually needs – whether that’s an in-person visit, an email, or a phone call. And the cost for the average person is far lower than a monthly insurance premium would be. A high deductible plan (for potential catastrophic events) and a pay-as-you-go relationship with Dr. Dappen is all that many people would need for good, affordable healthcare.
Well, Good Morning America has caught wind of Dr. Dappen and is featuring him tomorrow morning (Wednesday, May 28th) between 7:30-8:00am. I’m really pleased that he’ll receive more attention this way. Of course, I knew he was great before they did. Do I get credit for finding him first?
This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.
