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What is Participatory Medicine?

Participatory Medicine is a movement in which patients and health professionals actively collaborate and encourage one another as full partners in healthcare.

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A cure for what killed Doc Tom! Can people afford it?
Published 6/27/2025 in SPM Blog
Tom Ferguson
Our Society was founded by 11 friends and followers of "Doc Tom" Ferguson, who died in 2006 of multiple myeloma. (If you don't know his extraordinary vision, see our Doc Tom page, and perhaps our... read more ❯

Participatory Medicine Manifesto

Our revolutionary manifesto was created by the members of the Society to help people better understand what participatory medicine is really all about. Once you see the common-sense principles of participatory medicine, you’ll get it too!

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