#NephJC will be looking at the NINJA trial which implemented a automated mechanism to alert doctors of nephrotoxic medications. Initiating this system correlated with a dramatic and persistent drop in acute kidney injury.
#NephJC Book Club: the wrap up #PWSYN
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
The #NephJC Pip/Taz + Vancomycin chat wrap up
Storify for both chats
Transcripts
Required reading for This Week's Chat
The introduction by Matt Graham-Brown is excellent but I think the post by Josh Farkas will be a major influence on the discussion. Don't miss it.
