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Many patients report that they wish they had more time to talk with their doctors. Others regret that they had other questions to ask and forgot, or felt too rushed. Sometimes they want better, more detailed answers, but because of doctors being so busy they cannot get adequate answers.
Medical progress changes rapidly. Today’s breakthrough treatment can quickly become tomorrow’s unexpectedly risky treatment. Information comes out quickly, sometimes even before it has been thoroughly thought out. The best examples are news stories about medical research on television. While these news stories are well-intentioned, they frequently confuse, scare, or misinform patients and their families because the details aren’t explained. More specifically, they don’t explain to whom the research does and does not apply. After three minutes of television, many patients are left more confused and frightened than before.
The Internet, while an extraordinary medium for information exchange, also represents a potential risk for misinformation. There tends to be a reporting bias for bad outcomes and rare events in medicine. A great example is the cardiac pacemaker. While hundreds of thousands of patients have received them, with more than 95 percent doing very well, some patients do experience complications. Unfortunately, these unavoidable complications are the ones most likely to be found in chat rooms, blogs, and other websites. The result is a scared, bewildered patient who is unlikely to get a balanced education about a pacemaker.
This book collects the first 150 MD_Knowledge articles, through 2012. More articles are also being added on the MD_Knowledge app and in the MD_Knowledge Shared Notebook on Evernote.
We created MD_Knowledge to provide thoughtful analysis of medical news stories without overwhelming “doctor-talk” or overly technical medical-speak. Our hope is to help patients improve their understanding of medical care and communication with friends, family, and their healthcare providers. To that end, MD_Knowledge is not trying to uproot your relationship with your healthcare provider; we hope to supplement it. Please do not change any treatment or medications without talking to your physician or other provider first.
ASIN : B00CS9570O
Publisher : LCH ePublishing (13 May 2013)
Language : English
File size : 1331 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 610 pages
