Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

Patients know what patients want to know.

— Dave deBronkart

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great,…

— Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a…

— Dave deBronkart

In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should…

— Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade…

— Dave deBronkart

Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in…

— Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna,…

— Dave deBronkart

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians…

— Dave deBronkart

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…

— Dave deBronkart

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

— Dave deBronkart

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply…

— Dave deBronkart

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It…

— Dave deBronkart

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is…

— Dave deBronkart

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you…

— Dave deBronkart

Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to…

— Dave deBronkart

In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In…

— Dave deBronkart

Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not…

— Dave deBronkart