http://docoliver.com Patients have to be more involved in their healthcare, or else they can anticipate uneven, less effective, and even disastrous results. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:53:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this year, the Oliver Center for Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, started a patient-empowerment and patient-centered project to encourage patients to tape-record their doctor’s advice during office visits. This makes sense from so many perspectives—scientific as well as humane. We have ... http://docoliver.com/2009/09/19/tape-recording/ How we get the news that we need to know about disease and healthcare has changed a lot in recent years, and in some ways, not for the better.  If we listen to 24-hour TV news stations for our news on the H1N1 flu, the facts we hear can get ... http://docoliver.com/2009/09/10/h1n1-flu-truth-vs-hyperbole/ What if U.S. citizens suddenly found out a new medical fact that, if they paid heed to it, could dramatically protect the lives of themselves and their loved ones? In a bold move that could make a significant impact on the quality and length of Americans’ lives, a team of journalists ... http://docoliver.com/2009/09/02/hearst-on-errors/ The pace of office medical care today is frantic. Studies show that, on average, a patient talks for less than 30 seconds before the doctor interrupts him. Doctors don’t usually have the time to tell you everything you should know about your illness. Realize that doctors have busy schedules and aren’t ... http://docoliver.com/2009/08/20/patients-internet/ Doctors in practice today only have time to deal with what you’ve come in for today. They don’t have time to organize your chart in the ideal fashion, so that they can check to see what tests you need for your chronic condition, or what blood tests to order so ... http://docoliver.com/2009/08/07/patients-health-information/