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The unexpected power of storytelling

By  | September 21, 2011
Categories: End of life|Found on the net|General|How I became an e-Patient|JoPM|Patient Networks|Social Media

The Journal of Participatory Medicine recently published a new commentary, “A Skydiver Jumps, and an Online Community Exults,” about the unexpected power of storytelling in a lung cancer support group. After sharing an uplifting story with her online group, Patricia Flowers is surprised to learn how it moved and inspired her fellow members.

This article came out on the same day as the e-Patients.net guest post by Dr. Neel Shah about the power of storytelling to help make healthcare more affordable.

 

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Kathleen O'Malley

Kathleen O'Malley has served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Participatory Medicine since 2010. Before that, she worked as an acquisitions editor and managed the Publishers’ Circle journal licensing program at Medscape for many years. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2008 and continues to thrive, thanks in great part to a caring group of surgeons, physicians, nurses, social workers and fellow survivors who all practice participatory medicine.

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