I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.

Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family?

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

I like to play by my own rules.