Here's a very good video about e-patients that was posted on the Society of Participatory Medicine, an extremely active email list that requires a yearly fee of 30 dollars. These people are on our side, and Braintalk and Neurotalk were created from this philosophy. e-patient Dave is a very frequent poster. Our own Doc John and the neurologist from braintalk whose name isn't coming right now are members and obviously are practicing what they preach.

It on Ted talks.

i'll give away the ending and then you will want to watch it. it ends with this chant.

"let patients help"
"let patients help"
"let patients help"

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_debron...ient_dave.html

from society for participatory medicine listserve:

E-patient Dave in the video is going to be on Ted Talks as the main guest this time on Wednesday . The chant has been spreading around the world - "latest translations in Farsi [Persian] and Korean".

chant : let patients help.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_debron...sm-bookmarklet

edited to add: first time on ted talks was a video of him somewhere else. now he has been invited back.

Ted has been a favorite of mine for some time. Thanks for bringing him to the front again. We should b e chanting:
"I wanna be like Ted!"
"I wanna be like Ted!"
"I wanna be like Ted!"

Peg

Inspiring talk. Thank you for pointing us at it.

Dave mentions Tim Berners-Lee's chant:
"Raw data now."
"Raw data now."

Apt.

John

It is Tim's data stuff that I referred to, and have been wondering how we could harness it's potential to collect information globally.......