Showing posts with label expert patient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expert patient. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

Information Therapy - The Expert Pharmacist





Watch this short video and pass it to each contact on your email list.  Lets’ create awareness and make this video go viral !



Information Therapy - Turning Patients Into Empowered Experts !

Traditionally, Indian patients were passive and were quite happy to leave all medicaldecisions to the doctor.

However, times have changed, and internet positive patients are hungry for information and want to work in partnership with their doctor.
This is a huge challenge -- and a great opportunity as well. We feel patients are the largest untapped healthcare resource and that Information Therapy is Powerful Medicine !

Patients often complain that they can never understand anything their doctor says. This is usually because doctors use medical jargon but you should never get intimidated by this! You just need to remember that such jargon is simply a convenient shorthand which doctors ( and other health care professionals) use to communicate with each other. Since these words are often derived from the classic languages ( Greek and Latin), they may sound unfamiliar and difficult to understand, but if you devote enough time and take enough trouble, you can definitely do so. Read More….



Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Launch of The Patient Community@HELP

On the Occasion of World Health Day: Launch of The Patient Community@HELP by Dr.Aniruddha Malpani,M.D., Founder of HELP and Patient Advocate.



You are invited to attend the launch of

The Patient Community@HELP

on Thursday,7th April, 2011 at 11.30a.m.

Introduction and launch of The Patient Community@HELP

Dr.Aniruddha Malpani, M.D., IVF Specialist, Founder, HELP and Patient Advocate- "How Patients can Heal a Sick Healthcare System".

Mr.Kanu (Harshad) Kamdar, Member, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Soc. of India - will speak on "Partnering with the Health Care Team for Graceful Aging".

Dr.Shantanu Nagarkatti, M.D., Surgeon, Professor, Expert in mind body medicine will speak on "Improving Patient Communication - Learn how to talk to your doctor !"

Mr.P.K. Rao, - Founder, JASCAP will speak on "Converting A Personal Tragedy Into A Socially Useful Project".

Registrations for membership to The Community @ HELP

The first meeting of The Patient Community@HELP will be held on Saturday, 14th May, 2011 and every second Saturday of the month thereafter.

Goal: To provide a platform for patients and doctors to connect, to help improve the doctor-patient relationship

Get Involved ! Whether you are a medical student, a physician, a patient or a caregiver, we need you.

If you are doctor, you can take a workshop ! If you are an expert patient, you can help other patients ! We are inviting registrations to The Patient Community @ HELP. Call us on 022-65952393/94 or send us an email.

Be there and contribute!

For more Information Click here.