Patients being involved in their health, and in their health care is very important. What is more important is where they get that information. If the informati

Patients being involved in their health, and in their health care is very important. What is more important is where they get that information. If the information is coming from big pharma it isn't informing patients, it's selling patients by making them think they have something that they don't. Additionally, big pharma has had a massive impact on how we identify illnesses. The DSM is a great example of this. The more diseases we can convince people they have the more drugs we can sell them. The issue is especially true for mental illness where they continue to push the definitions of illnesses so broad that everyone has a mental illness. Read the book I recommended. Seriously, it's a great and easy read. If you are all about patient education, then you need to understand the full picture.