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 'crowd'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:16:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159207&cid=t_236585_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F20%2Fthree-is-a-crowd%2F “Three is a crowd,” my husband told me when I shyly brought up the question of whether we should have more children. Maybe it was the complicated nature of the question or just the wrong timing (dinner), but we managed to get into a long discussion that culminated in an argument. An hour overdue, banana bread in the oven interrupted us with its burnt smell. I don’t even know if I want to have more children, but I have been plagued by the question the last few months. We have two. They are at the age where I can forget about buying mountains of diapers, carrying ten pounds of baby paraphernalia anywhere I go and performing the never-ending gymnastics of helping my kids with every move they make. I am finally becoming just a tad more relaxed, relearning the joy of adult company, uninte... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159207 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:51:49 +0100 5159207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4664180&cid=t_236585_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcrowd-sourcing-for-medical-diagnoses%2F2011.03.31 The Times ran an intriguing experiment on its Well blog yesterday: a medical problem-solving contest. The challenge, based on the story of a real girl who lives near Philadelphia, drew 1379 posted comments and closed this morning with publication of the answer. Dr. Lisa Sanders, who moderated the piece, says today that the first submitted correct response came from a California physician; the second came from a Minnesota woman who is not a physician. Evidently she recognized the condition’s manifestations from her experience working with people who have it. The public contest – and even the concept of using the word “contest” – to solve a real person’s medical condition interests me a lot. This kind of puzzle is, as far as I know, unprecedented apart from the somewhat removed d... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4664180 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:00:56 +0100 4664180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436796&cid=t_236585_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F04%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-february-4-2011%2F I love what you have been sharing on our Facebook page recently. Reading about the things you love about your uniqueness has been very inspiring. (If you missed it, catch up here.) Some days it’s hard to love ourselves-the quirky things we say, our crooked smile, or how we need to be around people as much as we need to get away from them. The funny thing is that what makes us different is often what makes us so lovable. Simply because there is no single person on this earth like you. When you think about it, isn’t that pretty cool? In the world we live in, it is sometimes hard to love our unusual parts, the things that make us stand out from the crowd. But your uniqueness (the way you write, speak, walk and how you just are) is really a fingerprint, a distinct and permanent imp... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436796 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:00:32 +0100 4436796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4022886&cid=t_236585_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fmedworm-goes-bust.html I did a stupid thing yesterday, rolled out some new code with an error that I hadn't spotted, which updated hundreds of MedWorm feeds with items from the alcoholism topic (yes I had tested the code first, but obviously not well enough). Now although I don't drink and would happily try and educate everyone on the risks of alcohol, this wasn't intentional, and needless to say there were a lot of 'unhappy campers' that were finding irrelevant information on their medical websites. The code has now been fixed I am happy to say and the feeds are updating now with the correct information, but there are so many it will take a few hours for this update to complete. So first I want to say a big 'Sorry! I'll try make sure this never happens again'. This should never have happened - the reason it did... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4022886 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:30:00 +0100 4022886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3911701&cid=t_236585_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fsurvey-how-would-you-define-health-20%2F2010.08.27 My friend and fellow blogger Lucien Engelen asked the health community to help define what Health 2.0 exactly means through an online survey: After our systematic review about the definition of Health 2.0, one of our next steps will be sorting out what “the crowd” thinks that has to be part of a definition of Health 2.0. For this purpose we’ve set up a little questionnaire that you could fill in below. To make the crowd as big as possible, we have also made it available to put on your own blog or website. We would encourage you to do this and inspire others to do the same. You may remember that Lucien and his collegues published a review about the definitions of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0 currently available. *This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll* (Source: ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3911701 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:27 +0100 3911701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3729860&cid=t_236585_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F2NyTbwDf3bY%2F By Michael F. CannonAccording to a new study by economists Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber, 80 percent of enrollment in Medicare Part D, and 80 percent of the dollars spent by Part D, merely crowd out private prescription drug coverage and spending. Put differently, Medicare Part D extends prescription drug coverage to one senior for the price of five. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3729860 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:41:46 +0100 3729860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581848&cid=t_236585_150_f&fid=38374&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FePharmaSummit%2F%7E3%2F3ZEk2ayeasg%2Fhow-social-proof-can-help-you.html (Source: ePharma Summit) ePharma Summit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581848 Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 +0100 3581848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3231799&cid=t_236585_150_f&fid=34889&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmamkting.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fcrowdsourcing-vs-science.html I think the elevation of "crowdsourcing" as a legitimate indication for determining drug benefits or risks in the real world is a luddite-like anti-science trend that must be counteracted.The latest example of this was just published on the Dose of Digital blog in the post "The Best Pharma Products According to Patients". In that post, Jonathan Richman reports drug ratings from iGuard.org and says:"...which are the top-rated products? Forget about all those head-to-head trials that payors want, but most companies are hesitant to conduct (for many reasons). If you want to know which treatment is best, why not check out its ratings? How far away is a future where patients select which products they want to take by using reviews such as those found on iGuard? I’m sure some of you are scoffi... Pharma Marketing Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3231799 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:56:00 +0100 3231799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2406247&cid=t_236585_155_f&fid=38406&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FThe1xObjective%2F%7E3%2FMMk85Ggikyo%2F Last Tuesday (5/5/09), San Francisco-based design company, frog design, hosted a Twitter-based conversation about the integration of technology in healthcare. They posed series of simple questions... Catch the rest of the story after the break... (Source: The 1x Objective) The 1x Objective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2406247 Sun, 10 May 2009 16:23:10 +0100 2406247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382554&cid=t_236585_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F03%2F12-great-things-about-twitter%2F Not twittering yet? Wow, you are so yesterday, last week, a part of the LiveJournal or Yahoo! crowd. C’mon, get with the program and start laying out your interesting, exciting life, one 140-character chunk at a time! After all, Shakespeare didn’t limit himself to just one 140 character play. In fact, I’m not sure what Shakespeare would make of twitter. Indeed, I don’t think you’ll find anything approaching Shakespeare’s quality in the microblogging service of twitter. Instead, what you will find is exactly what you would’ve found about 8 years ago when blogging became all the rage, and everyone decided to start one (only to abandon it 3 weeks later for lack of anything interesting to say). Thankfully, twitter to the rescue! I mean, if you can&#8... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382554 Sun, 03 May 2009 10:20:21 +0100 2382554 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353884&cid=t_236585_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F21%2Fnurturing-my-soul-stadium-therapy%2F Everyone has a few places on this earth they consider special. People get a certain feeling when they are there, like putting on a pair of old comfortable shoes or being plugged into a charge of energy. Memories, emotions, physical sensations - these places stir them all up, creating a divine craving to return often. For me, it’s an old football stadium. This past weekend I went to the football stadium of my alma mater. It’s just a spring scrimmage, but it’s a Huge Deal every year. This thing is more than just a sporting event. It’s an excuse to “be there”, to bask in the aura and the atmosphere, to get lost inside the experience. I went to college there, so did my husband, my dad, and so many other people in my family. I was in the marching band, and I... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353884 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:37:08 +0100 2353884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2027046&cid=t_236585_150_f&fid=34889&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmamkting.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fproblem-with-social-networks-wheres.html In his book "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations," author James Surowiecki argued that aggregate information gleaned from groups results in decisions that are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.It all depends on how you define "GROUP"or "CROWD." What if it's only a few "knuckleheads?" That's what Dan McKillen asked in his recent MM&M "Web Watch" column:"Online communities have a substantial amount of influence on almost all web users. Product reviews, visitor comments and recommendations posted online are second to word-of-mouth as a way to drive sales for all web users. The scary part is that so many of the comments, advice and postings come from on... Pharma Marketing Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2027046 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:20:00 +0100 2027046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=983965&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F27%2Fobstructing-praxis-by-tampering-with-the-dsm%2F I spent the night editing this pdf document by the almost overwhelmingly ambitious Bonnie Burstow, a name we may recognize from the threads on Simone D. Link: Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work. I deleted 2,000 words, mainly references and shit I violently disagree with (identity politics), but since no one [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=983965 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:09:25 +0100 983965 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=959831&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Fhow-to-kill-empathy%2F This was especially useful tonight, but his speeches are often a thing of beauty, both intellectually and emotionally, and there are a ton of them at youtube. I’ll save my own impressions for later so as not to mar the experience of the viewer, but just offer thanks for Dr. John Breeding, who has taken [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959831 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:56:38 +0100 959831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=944645&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F11%2Fdear-god-your-sockpuppets-are-calling%2F That would be the self-named Chosen who speak as icons of lucidity, praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on behalf of the crazy folk. Included in this week’s devotion to exploiting the children they deny they drove insane, NAMI held their National Day of Prayer for Those with Mental Illness on Tuesday. Though [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=944645 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:39:21 +0100 944645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908673&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F27%2Fthe-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed%2F I’m back from the SHAC. My first impression is that the consumers are infantilized, they didn’t want to engage the medical director, they wanted to squabble with each other about soda and pizza. Not much dialogue, lots more when is the pizza coming? God! One consumer asked if there could be MORE [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908673 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:29:08 +0100 908673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894279&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F23%2Fwhat-i-spurned-on-my-summer-vacation%2F For the last few years I’ve been holding off on buying Nick Cave’s double-CD Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus until I do something sufficiently awful that I don’t have to but probably should if I’m to get along with my better self. I’ve met my share of challenges since the CD came out, and each [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894279 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:21 +0100 894279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=852594&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F08%2Fwell-well-look-whut-the-cat-drug-in%2F It’s about time Democrats get with the program. Maybe we’ll see this happen on a national level, as the electorate increasingly demands it : Some Democratic state lawmakers and mental health professionals are criticizing a new plan to improve school safety, which calls for sharing private mental health records with government agencies. “I don’t think we can overreach and sacrifice patient privacy for the so-called benefit of public safety,” said Sen. Bob Hagedorn, D-Aurora, an advocate for health care reform. “That line in the report scares the hell out of me,” he added. “It’s repulsive to me. Are we going to get to the point where we post on the Internet the mentally ill much like we do with sex offenders?” The plan released Thursday came out of a three-month s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=852594 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:50:03 +0100 852594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=835528&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F31%2Fchoosey-moms-choose-pepper-spray%2F At the Capitol Wednesday lawmakers held a meeting with the officials of the Texas Youth Commission, to hear how they’re coming with the sweeping reforms outlined in last session. I’m in such a pissy funk it’s taking 2 days and hard liquor to absorb the testimony. The only M.D. who spoke said what they need to do is take behavioral control of the population, and that he would diagnose “100 percent of the inmates with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” He then praised the cutting edge research of Harvard’s bi-polar child mafia, citing Biederman by name, as mark of credibility. There was no criticism or suggestion of internal controversy, and there won’t be, ever. A specialized medical practice is by definition out of reach from general discourse, the s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=835528 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:03:09 +0100 835528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=817678&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F23%2Fa-good-psychiatrist%2F I could imagine him falling asleep in front of a schizophrenic patient and I realized that he was probably the only psychiatrist in the world who would actually do such a thing. He would not be afraid of psychotics because their experience is not foreign to him. He has been to the farther reaches of the mind himself, has experienced their ecstasies as well as their terrors, and would be able to give an authentic response, based on his own experience, to virtually anything a patient could show him.* Ronald Laing died 18 years ago today. He was a hero and a fuckup and many speak his name with reverence because not only did he get it, he insisted that getting it is no big deal, that all you have to do is try. At face value Laing was a scholar educating other scholars about the experience of m... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=817678 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:41:41 +0100 817678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=711805&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F03%2Fthe-pod-people-got-pbs%2F I’ve been having some browser drama these days, and just read this post at Hymes that got me typing. I typed near five hours and when I hit “post” the javascript in my new wrong Safari browser stripped every word, and there’s no snapback can retrieve it. I can’t sleep, I’m wound up, unable to remember [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=711805 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:39:00 +0100 711805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=629462&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F20%2Fsbd-sociology-beats-drugs%2F Only thing I have to say about this new Subthreshold Bipolar Diagnosis is labeling theory really needs to make a comeback. Meanwhile it’s good to see the lot of us shaking our heads, none but the innocents at crazyboards appear to be taking this SBD thing seriously. As Big Pharma’s base grows increasingly jaundiced I wonder how they’re gonna keep us down on the farm, what marketing plans they’re gonna pull out of their ass upon reading entries like this in Furious Season’s contest to name the newly discovered bipolar illness: NPN: No placebo Necessary PRD: Pharmaceutical Rep Disorder PNLTD: Psychiatrists Need Love Too Disorder DUMBASS-$ (Diagnosing Usually Mundane Behavior As Seroquel Scripts $oar) and my favorite: “Capitalism.” Yes, more like t... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=629462 Tue, 22 May 2007 22:05:06 +0100 629462 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620673&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F12%2Falas-a-clue%2F I got involved in a thread again. I swear to god. These are liberals by the way. Feminists and liberals. I don’t know where to start, you have to start where people are, ok, but I’m just saying, pre-school is maddening. “Maybe psychiatric survivors are people, too, just like you and Johnny and Jane.” At least they’re talking, right? Out of their ass, for the most part, but it’s a start. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620673 Sat, 12 May 2007 06:01:12 +0100 620673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=561827&cid=t_236585_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F22%2Fif-not-now-then-when%2F Cokie Roberts was wild-eyed on ABC’s Rountable this morning, calling for involuntary commitment, I’m trying to find the transcript. On Meet the Press Tim Russert interviewed the luminaries, among them Virginia Tech president Dr. Charles Steger: Russert: Let me ask you about the whole issue of mental health in, in students and refer you to an article from The New York Times, which I’ll share with you and our viewers. “English professors and students appear to have worked harder than anyone to intervene in [Cho’s] life. Trying to balance the freedom needed to be creative against the warning” sign—“signs of psychosis, as many as eight of his teachers in the last 18 months had formed what one called a ‘task force’ to discuss how to handle him, gathering twice on th... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=561827 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:05:39 +0100 561827