Healthcare
Participatory Medicine in Practice
Dr. Greene highlights the power of participatory medicine... I was honored to take part in the recent Health 2.0 conference. In the video you'll meet one of the regular members of our community. Inter…
Future Health 100
I was humbled when a leading healthcare website, healthspottr, included me in the list of top innovators in healthcare today. The future health 100 list included people who are working together to mak…
Unfettered Access to Our Health Data
Imagine trying to manage your money without seeing your bank statements or credit card bills. Being able to see the numbers is central to being able to take charge of your finances. Likewise, having y…
HealthDataRights.org Calls for People’s Right To Have and Share Health Data
Update December, 14, 2014: This initiative has resulted in patients having greater rights than ever before. Thought-Leaders Unite to Release Declaration of Health Data Rights United States--June 22, 2…
Our Health Data Rights
Imagine sitting in a car, eager to get someplace, but not allowed to drive. You must wait for another adult to come with the keys. You hit redial on your mobile phone repeatedly trying to get an updat…
The Dawn of Patient-Centered Health Care
If you're tired of the present health care system in the U.S., raise your hand. Now imagine how many people are raising their hands with you. Because of our universal dislike of our current health car…
How do you know what health information is reliable?
Pediatricians need to learn to listen to parents and take their insights and intuition seriously. Doctors in general need to learn to listen to patients and to take their insights seriously. So does t…
A Glimpse of American Healthcare of the Future (My Talk at Health 2.0)
Thomas Jefferson had a radical notion: When the people are well-informed, they can be trusted to govern themselves. This powerful idea worked to end our rule by the King, but at the time it didn't app…
Free Health Tool for the iPhone
When health questions come up, you may not be next to a computer. Do you want quick access to high-quality answers to your health questions on the go? I'm excited about the A.D.A.M. Symptom Navigator,…
Choosing a Green Pediatrician
As you did when choosing an ob/gyn, you want to find a pediatrician who is top-notch medically. How much better if he or she is also on the journey to an environmentally sustainable perspective on ped…
The Oath of Hippocrates
I SWEAR by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation to re…
The Two Toms
Our dear friend, our brother, our hero, the inimitable Doc Tom, died on Good Friday. Even though his untimely death came as a shock, Tom Ferguson had already far outlived the projections at the time o…
Cheap Genetic Testing At Home?
A brilliant idea may bring expensive medical tests into reach using nothing more exotic than home computer with a CD drive. Up until now, many specific protein tests have relied on $100,000 fluorescen…
More News from Pew
What makes a difference in how happy you are with the health information you find online? The Pew Internet and the American Life Project continues to study how we use the Internet and how it is changi…
Thank You from the PEW Internet Project
Many of you participated in the Pew Internet & American Life Report by filling out a survey at DrGreene.com. The results are now in! (more…)…
Our Summer 2003 Report Card
How are we doing? The latest edition of America's Children:Key National Indicators of Well-Being was released on July 18, 2003. This is an annual government report card produced by the Fed-eral Intera…
Election 2004
My oldest son will turn 18 a few days after the next U.S. presidential election. He won't be able to vote. None of my children will be able to vote. When I vote it will not only be my voice in the pol…
Video Cameras and Cells Phones Change 911
A portable video camera in the back of the speeding ambulance allows doctors to begin making a diagnosis even before the patient reaches the emergency room. A pioneering prototype at the University of…
Informed Decision Making?
Most doctors feel like they do a good job communicating with patients. But when researchers analyzed audiotaped conversations between doctors and patients who knew they were being taped to study commu…
800-GIVE-LIFE To Save A Life Today
Please call 800-GIVE-LIFE today. Here's why. The American Red Cross has announced that there is a critical blood shortage throughout the United States and has issued a national appeal for blood donati…