22 Quotes by Dave deBronkart

The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.

Patients know what patients want to know.

I’ve been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.

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

Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.

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?