MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'consumers & patients'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:53:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060587&cid=t_309365_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-is-a-patient-a-doctors-perspective%2F2010.10.12 What is a patient? What do they do? What’s their role in the doctor’s office?  Are they chassis on a conveyor belt? Are they puzzles for doctors to solve? Are they diseases? Are they demographics? Are they a repository for applied science? Or are they consumers? Are they paying customers? Are they the ones in charge? Are they employing physicians for their own needs? It depends. It depends on the situation. It depends on perspective. Some physicians are very offended when the “consumer” and “customer”  labels are applied to patients. They see this as the industrialization of healthcare. We are no longer professionals, we are made into “providers” — sort of smart vending-machine made out of flesh. Patients, on the other hand, get offended when doctors forget who... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060587 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:00:31 +0100 4060587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726577&cid=t_309365_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F07%2Fdoityourself-health-care.html By PATRICIA SALBER I was debating merits of DIY healthcare with my buddy, Brian Klepper, PhD -healthcare analyst and pundit extraordinaire - the other day. He is not a fan, preferring instead to have better, stronger, more informed, technologically enabled... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726577 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3726577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984749&cid=t_309365_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F11%2Frole-of-consumer-networks-in-evidence-based-health-information%2F Guest author: Janet Wale member of the Cochrane Consumer Network People are still struggling with evidence or modern medicine – clinicians, patients, health consumers, carers and the public alike. Part of this is because we always thought medicine was based on quality research, or evidence. It is not only that. For evidence to [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984749 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:31 +0100 2984749 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1876039&cid=t_309365_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fpatients-people.html Why is it that some of life’s biggest “no-brainers” are often not obvious to the people they effect most? In this case I’m thinking of professionals in the healthcare industry, who talk about “patients” with a strange kind of distance, as if they themselves didn’t have health issues and need to see doctors sometimes [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1876039 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:15:02 +0100 1876039