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Dave deBronkart
American
Writer
Care
Medicine
Patient
People
Value
You
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Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.
Dave deBronkart
People
Better
Care
Value
Medicine
Follows
More
Perform
Know
Make
Said
Effective
Families
Depends
Patients
Information
Informed
Help
Help People
Need
Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
Dave deBronkart
Website
Me
Hospital
Put
Being
Tumor
Sizes
Numbers
Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.
Dave deBronkart
Great
Care
Tried
Some
Hospital
Hospitals
Sure
Wonder
Get
Taught
Anyone
Them
Even
Ever
Sleep
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Dave deBronkart
Trust
Writing
Will
Important
Secondary
Cascade
Resulting
Least
Intelligent
Reporters
Reasons
Many
Damage
Careful
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
Dave deBronkart
You
Smart
Thought
Patient
Carefully
Assumption
Way
Out
Must
Stubborn
Since
Most
Empowerment
Learned
Methodical
Cultural
Taught
Really
Hard
Sequence
Barriers
Professionals
Need
Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna, and cranium; five metastases in my lungs; and muscle metastases in my thigh and tongue. Yet six months after diagnosis, my treatment ended: I've not had a drop of anything since.
Dave deBronkart
Drop
Stage
Bone
Months
Had
Since
Diagnosed
Diagnosis
Five
Grade
Ended
Cell
Six
After
Anything
Which
Eventually
Lungs
Tongue
Muscle
Fractured
Treatment
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
Dave deBronkart
Sad
Alone
People
Burden
Valuable
Face
Forcing
Society
Needless
Baby
Boomer
Responsible
About
Costs
Bear
Particularly
Surge
False
Effect
Governments
Senseless
Decisions
Places
Choices
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
Dave deBronkart
Value
Medicine
Our
Please
Define
Steer
Practical
Healthcare
Improve
Patients
Decisions
Help
Strategic
I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.
Dave deBronkart
Care
Power
Own
Active
Design
Everything
My Own
Empowered
Equipped
Role
Them
Engaged
Help
Even
Play
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