Family physician and Chairperson, Illinois State Board of Health
Practicing medicine on the south side of Chicago, Dr. Javette Orgain describes her work at a community health center there. The challenges and issues in the patient experience, she says, would be better addressed with improved "health literacy."
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Gerren Hobby
Sep 14, 2010 — 12:13 AM
Are there any opinions on the creation of a website called something like "MedicalMetaphor.com"? It could be a wiki on which med students and doctors could submit simple explanations to disease pathophysiology? iPhone and Android apps could make it easily accessible to healthcare providers trying to explain something like preeclampsia to their patient.