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Patient Power’s New Look

I hope you’ve had a chance to enjoy our new home page and our new look. Our goal is to continually update our content and the clarity of our communication to help patients and family members get the most compelling, most authoritative health information for their area of concern.

I am delighted to tell you [...]

Frat Boys Becoming Fat Boys?

Each Spring for the past four years I have made a 3-4 day trip to Arizona with my son, Ari, now 18, to be a baseball fan and attend Spring Training games. This year we saw three games at three different stadiums. Each time the look of the crowd was different and, unfortunately, the waistlines [...]

Health Information for Hispanic-Americans

For many Americans we move in parallel but separate universes. In my case, as an American Jew who is fairly “assimilated” I feel right in the mainstream. But I remember how my parents and their parents mostly lived in Jewish neighborhoods and associated mostly with Jewish people. My grandparents spoke Yiddish, an eastern European Jewish [...]

Why More Internet and Less Radio for Health?

I am ending my 3-year-old Sunday morning Seattle radio show. The last edition is this Sunday, March 9th.

How come?

• I realize I am at my core an “Internet Guy” and that is where I can reach patients seeking information most directly

• This direct-to-patient approach makes the most sense for my sponsors – [...]