Peggy Orenstein‘s article, “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” is worth one of your precious NYTimes.com chits (unless, of course, you’re a subscriber, in which case you have hopefully already devoured it). But don’t just take my word for it, read this post by Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network — the bloggers […]
policy issues
“A jumbo jet a day” – who said it?
I’m looking into public perceptions of patient safety as a possible research topic and have run up against a question I can’t answer. Can you help?
The Waiting Room
Quick: check the listings for “The Waiting Room.” If it’s playing in your city, go. (Run if you live in Boston – the director will be interviewed by Alexandra Drane tonight). I went to a screening last night and agree with Ann Hornaday, a movie critic for The Washington Post, who gave it her highest […]
“Privacy leaves the room when cancer enters.”
– John Wilbanks talking about unintended consequences of informed consent. Read a summary of his talk and a clarification.
“…asking ‘who owns the data?’ is a meaningless, time-wasting, and shallow conceptualization of the issue at hand.”
– Fred Trotter, in an article about patient data that reminded me of Daniel Solove’s A Taxonomy of Privacy
For some people, it’s still 1994
Here’s a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris, director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public. We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences library provides in this area but in this age of budget cuts (and […]
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