My name is Narinder Singh. I joined SPM in April. That’s my mom in the photo above.

Last year our family was caught by surprise when she had a completely unexpected and dramatic ICU stay of three months. We had a lot to learn fast and too little help, and when it was over we committed to help other families be engaged, informed, empowered patients.

We have decided to publish this as a four part series here on the blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine, including a downloadable PDF of the entire project. We want it to be a dynamic document, improving through your responses in the Comments section.

The series starts tomorrow. Please do contribute your thoughts and experiences.