Can We Trust Online Healthcare?
Before Dave deBronkart was known by his online moniker e-patient Dave, he was a typical offline patient with a troubling diagnosis: Stage IV kidney cancer with a very low survival rate. But when deBronkart’s doctor referred him to an online community for kidney cancer patients, deBronkart found information so up-to-date that it beat medical journals, pointing him toward a rarely used treatment that restored his health. “I’m a classic example of somebody who didn’t much care anything about healthcare or how the system works, until I had my ‘now I …
