Cartoon: The Omnipresence Of Pharma Advertising
Here’s a cartoon I created a few years back. Enjoy!
– Dr. Val
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
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Dr. Val Tells ABC News About Hospital Errors And How To Avoid Them
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtC_8KJZrkI
I kick off this segment with a surprising twist: I describe a hospital error that I experienced as a patient in the ER of a famous academic medical center. And yes, I give a shout out to Paul Levy at minute 5 for his courageous efforts to reduce infection rates at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Dr. Val Uses Limerick To Warn Internet Users To Consider The Source Of Their Health Information
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebdGR3IZp8
For more information about this lecture, check out:
Meredith Gould’s blog post, A Tale of One Presentation
Science-Based Medicine’s, Mainstreaming Science-Based Medicine: A Novel Approach
ABC News: The ePatient Revolution
I recently spoke at the first annual ePatient Connections conference in Philadelphia. I’ll be discussing the ePatient revolution (patients participating in their healthcare decision-making using Internet tools) at ABC news channel 8 live this morning with Dave Lucas. During the segment I’ll be referring to several websites that people will want to check out. For those of you who saw the segment, welcome to my website! Here are the links:
1. Doctors answer questions for free at MedHelp.org Did you know that 9 of the top 11 hospital centers in the country offer access to their physicians for free at MedHelp.org? As part of a PR effort, hospitals are volunteering their doctors’ time to make sure that ePatients can get their questions answered by a reputable source.
2. Identify those mystery pills. Thanks to David Hale at the NIH, a new pill identifier tool is now available online. It’s called “PillBox” and it will soon allow you to search its large pill database by describing the color, shape, and letter/number codes printed on the tablet. Eventually, you may even be able to take a photo of the mysterious pill and have PillBox automatically identify it for you! Today, unfortunately, photo resolution on most cell phones and cameras is not sufficient for this feature to work. Read more »
A Tale Of Two ePatients – Limerick By Dr. Val Jones
Today I presented 20 slides in 20 seconds each at the ePatient Connections conference in Philadelphia. It was in the new “Pecha Kucha” format whereby the presenter must encapsulate her thoughts very carefully as the slides advance automatically each 20 seconds.
I decided to do it as a Limerick, since timing could be more easily gaged that way. I wasn’t sure how the presentation would be received, but the crowd loved it and asked for a copy of my slide deck… so for you conference attendees who wanted it… here it is:
A Tale of Two ePatients
View more presentations from Better Health.
And here is what I was reading as the show advanced (the slides advanced every 2 verses). Enjoy! Read more »
