Sharing Meaningful Medical Content Face it, our patients forget nearly 80% or more of what we tell them after they leave our office.  We may have shared some very valuable tidbits of information or post-surgical instructions with them … and when they return to the office we may be disappointed that they didn’t do what… Read More

here’s what people more typically do after a diagnosis: Gather up a hodgepodge of information—online and by talking to friends—that is often incomplete, inaccurate, and incomprehensible. “Generally speaking, the perception of chances of good and bad outcomes is very poor,” says Annette O’Connor, a researcher at the University of Ottawa in Canada who has long… Read More

When Americans go looking for information on health, they turn to the Internet as one of their first sources. According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of adults say they look online for health information. There’s a term for them: e-patients. Most e-patients go online to read… Read More