This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here’s how to become a Society member, individual or corporate.
Our publications:
- This blog is e-patients.net. Subscribe via RSS or email, tweets etc.
- Our open-access journal is the Journal of Participatory Medicine (Twitter: @JourPM)
“Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners.”
Additional resources:
- Our manifesto: the e-Patient White Paper (PDF), in English and Spanish
- The Society’s member list, board and officers, and member listserv archives (members only)
- Our founders
- Guidelines for submitting guest posts about participatory medicine, for this blog
- Author guidelines for submissions to the Journal of Participatory Medicine
- Wikipedia pages for participatory medicine and e-patient
Contact us:
- Volunteering: volunteer@
participatorymedicine.org - Blog: blog@participatorymedicine.org
- As a Society blog, we do not accept unsolicited guest posts from non-members. See our Guest Posts page.
- General information: info@participatorymedicine.org
Welcome!
Please consider supporting the Society by joining us today! Thank you.
my health problems of my 20 years here are really too typical,of my age of 83 now, but my doctors have failed me consistently , with the internet as my protector. so what good is my record going to do me. for example, constipation and nocturia and low thyroid; no one asked , “do you use salt?’ I hadn’t been, re cardiac popular wisdom; so I was missing sodium to produce valpressin, draining my body of liquid; and missing the iodine in iodized table salt for thyroid. 20 years of wortless ‘medical records’ I have yet to meet a competent doctor, Oh yes biggy: long after a year on wellbutrin, learned of the danger of anticholinergics to seniors, My friend the net.