This Engineer Found His Own Brain Tumor Thanks To Open Medical Data

Doctors often worry that giving patients too much information will be overwhelming or harmful. However, a study by OpenNotes is showing the exact opposite. After giving 20,000 patients access to doctor's notes through the OpenNotes platform, patients reported feeling more in control, educated, and better at taking their medication. This may seem obvious--but in traditional medicine patients are often distanced from potentially empowering medical data on their condition. For Steven Keating, an en...