Consumer Driven Health Care Has Arrived

You know that the era of consumer driven health care has arrived when your spouse sends you a link to a a highly relevant article dealing evidence-based practice before any of your professional colleagues. This is an article worth reading that I would not have likely seen had my wife Amy not sent it to me. The lesson to me in the brief email that my wife sent to me was that the days of the physician with the halo over their head are over. Consumers are often more informed than their providers, know what treatments work and those that do not, and will increasingly be skeptical of expert opinion. Listen to your patients (and certainly your spouse!)...you may just learn something. Thanks, Amy. I know more today about EBP than I did yesterday.

John