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Cartoon Shows A Common Misconception About The “E-Patient”

An SPM member emailed this, with the playful subject line “A New e-Patient”:

© Copyright 2011 King Features Syndicate. All Rights Reserved.

(Click the image to go to the high-res on the comic’s site; © Copyright 2011 King Features Syndicate, all rights reserved.)

Funny comic, but it’s a common misconception that “e-patient” = anyone who googles (or bings, or webmd’s, or…). Wrong. E-patients are empowered, engaged, educated etc – not mindless, and not likely to freak out at the first thing they read.

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*This blog post was originally published at e-Patients.net*

The Ten Types of Doctor Bloggers

One of my favourite blogs just featured a nice picture that presents the 10 typical types of medical bloggers.

Here they are:

  • Dr. Funny
  • Dr. Mommy
  • Dr. Boring
  • Dr. Didactic
  • Dr. Product Placement
  • Dr. Resident
  • Dr. No Longer A Doctor
  • Dr. Political
  • Dr. Miracle
  • Dr. Whiny

Which type do you belong to?

Click on the image for the original source and size.


*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*

Positive Message Of The Day

Source: thatshappy.blogspot.com via Dawn on Pinterest

*This blog post was originally published at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess*

Cartoon: The Omnipresence Of Pharma Advertising

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Here’s a cartoon I created a few years back. Enjoy!

– Dr. Val

*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*

The Friday Funny: The Healthcare Reform Mess

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How To Be A Successful Patient: Young Doctors Offer Some Advice

I am proud to be a part of the American Resident Project an initiative that promotes the writing of medical students residents and new physicians as they explore ideas for transforming American health care delivery. I recently had the opportunity to interview three of the writing fellows about how to…

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Book Review: Is Empathy Learned By Faking It Till It’s Real?

I m often asked to do book reviews on my blog and I rarely agree to them. This is because it takes me a long time to read a book and then if I don t enjoy it I figure the author would rather me remain silent than publish my…

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The Spirit Of The Place: Samuel Shem’s New Book May Depress You

When I was in medical school I read Samuel Shem s House Of God as a right of passage. At the time I found it to be a cynical yet eerily accurate portrayal of the underbelly of academic medicine. I gained comfort from its gallows humor and it made me…

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Eat To Save Your Life: Another Half-True Diet Book

I am hesitant to review diet books because they are so often a tangled mess of fact and fiction. Teasing out their truth from falsehood is about as exhausting as delousing a long-haired elementary school student. However after being approached by the authors’ PR agency with the promise of a…

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