The New York Times published an interesting series of articles today called "Decoding Your Health" about the vast amounts of information that sick and healthy consumers face everyday. As we discussed on this blog yesterday, there is more medical information available to consumers than ever before. And it can be difficult for those of us without a medical background to wade through it all. As one of the authors of the series Tara Parker-Pope said. "Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?" The articles offer a variety of opinions and tips for wading through the information.
You can find one of the articles in the series here "You're Sick. Now What: Knowledge is Power", with links to the others: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/health/30pati.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
And the discussion of the article is here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/decoding-your-health/
What other tips would you add to wading through all the information available?
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