Despite the summer and vacations, we had two very successful chats. This post has links to the full archive of the discussion as well as two curated Storifys.
Chapter Fifteen: The Emancipated Consumer
Chapter Fourteen: Flattening The Earth
Chapter Thirteen: Predicting and Preempting Disease
Chapter Twelve: Secure vs. Cure
Chapter Eleven: Open Sesame
Chapter Ten: The Edifice Complex
Chapter Nine: My (Smartphone) Doctor
Chapter Eight: My Costs
Chapter Seven: My Records and Meds
Chapter Six: My Lab Tests and Scans
Capter Five: My GIS
Chapter Four Angelina Jolie: My Choice
Chapter Three: A Precedent for Momentous Change
Chapter Two: Eminence-Based Medicine
Chapter One: Medicine turned Upside Down.
Eric Topol begins this book by setting the stage of why patients will become more empowered. Topol argues that patients are not going to settle for the amount of power physicians are comfortable yielding, but rather that forces larger than medicine will fundamentally alter the traditional patient-doctor relationship.
The NephJC Summer Book Club is coming
NephJC Summer Book Club Selection
Thanks everyone for voting. The results are in and Eric Topol's The Patient Will See You Now won.
The voting looked like this:
But the reason we asked how likely you are to read the book was so we could weight the votes. The weighting worked like this:
- 0.2 for I'll read it if I have time
- 0.4 for I'll read it if it is the book I want
- 0.6 for 50-50
- 0.8 for I will buy and start
- 1.0 for scout's honor
This turned out to not really affect the results
So Topol's book it is. The Patient Will See You Now examines how changes in technology are forcing a democratization of medicine and empowering patients in an unprecedented way. This seems like an important theme for today medical climate. The exact date of the chat has not been fixed but it will likely be mid to late July, so start reading. Watch the blog for summaries of all the chapters, similar to how we covered Being Mortal.
The NephJC Book Club Returns. Vote for your choice.
Last summer we did a book club on Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. The NephJC team blogged its way through every chapter and we did a discussion of the book during one of our Tuesday/Wednesday chats. We think the summer is a great time to slow down from the rapid digestion of medical literature and enjoy a slower paced book. We couldn't decide on a book among ourselves so we are turning to you to pick this Summer's book. Here are the choices:
1. When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi. NYT Review.
2. The Patient will See You Now by Dr. Eric Topol (@erictopol) NYT Review.
3. How doctors think by Dr. Jerome Groopman. NYT Review
4. On the Move by Dr. Oliver Sacks. NYT Review
5. The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee. Los Angeles Times Review
