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I am a good patient, believe it or not

I am a good patient, believe it or not

Here is an article reported in the British Medical Journal in 2003 by Alejandro R Jadad, Carlos A Rizo and Murray W Enkin. They mentioned what the good patient of the future would be like:

  • Bring lists of questions to the consultation and will expect answers in clear terms
  • Know how involved they want to be in decisions about their health care; most will choose to share decisions with their healthcare providers
  • Have free access to their health record on paper or through electronic means and will use it or share it as they see fit
  • Request and receive a second opinion whenever they face a major diagnosis or decisions about therapy
  • Use telephone, internet, and other forms of communication to complement personal visits with members of the healthcare team
They were absolutely right. The situation is almost the same in 2008. How a number of e-patients do you think we have now? Not too a number of, but the number is certainly much bigger than the number of web-savvy doctors.

World wide web is for us, not against us…

I hope Webicina will help them find relevant and useful web 2.0 content.



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