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Alice Tolbert Coombs

“They never took his sock off”: a parable of patient empowerment, resourcefulness, and literacy–Susannah Fox

December 28, 2010 By Susannah Fox 26 Comments

Jessie Gruman’s Journal of Participatory Medicine commentary, “Evidence That Engagement Does Make a Difference,” reminded me of a talk delivered by Alice Tolbert Coombs, M.D.,  last September: As you listen to Dr. Coombs’s chilling story about a man who lost his foot because nobody ever took his sock off to examine it, please review Jessie’s […]

Filed Under: shared decision making, Why PM Tagged With: Alice Tolbert Coombs, Jessie Gruman, Journal of Participatory Medicine, Mayo Transform, participatory medicine, patientslikeme, Paul Wicks, Pew Internet

What can surgeons learn from patients?

September 22, 2010 By Susannah Fox 29 Comments

I’m going to be on a panel at the American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress on October 5 in Washington, DC. The session title is pretty provocative: To Tweet or Become Extinct?: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Social Networking and my part of it uses the “e” word that I recently tried to […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: Alice Tolbert Coombs, American College of Surgeons, Catherine deVries, Howard Luks, KevinMD, participatory medicine, Social Networking, surgery

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