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e-Patient Dave
| October 30, 2012
As noted in today’s earlier post, we’re starting a series of posts by SPM members who participated in last weekend’s PCORI workshop. Kelly Young (@RAWarrior) is one of the smartest e-patients I’ve ever seen anywhere. Aside from her technical...
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e-Patient Dave
| June 5, 2018
This is so exasperating. For years we at the Society for Participatory Medicine have been among the leaders of the movement for patients to have access to their medical records, in EMRs and everywhere. We’ve blogged repeatedly (and advocated in DC) about patient...
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e-Patient Dave
| August 3, 2017
I’m taking the extraordinary step of rerunning, verbatim, an entire post from 2014 about this important development. Why? Because tomorrow an update is coming, and to fully appreciate the news, you need to appreciate the background. Here’s the original,...
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e-Patient Dave
| February 11, 2015
This is a great week for SPM, for our colleagues at the Stanford Medicine X conference, and for everyone else who’s been working for years to shift medicine’s thinking about the role of the patient: Yesterday the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal)...
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e-Patient Dave
| July 15, 2014
I’m saddened (really saddened, as I write this) to report that one of the titans of our movement, Jessie Gruman, died unexpectedly yesterday at home in New York. She had long been sick, but the demise was sudden. In addition to the mountain of work she produced...
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e-Patient Dave
| March 5, 2014
Significantly expanded, below the video, an hour after the first post. Peter Frishauf, member of the editorial board of our journal, has brought what is to me the most exciting news for participatory medicine since the OpenNotes project. Importantly, this news may...
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e-Patient Dave
| August 16, 2013
SPM member Kelly Young is one of the most spectacular, potent, world-changing e-patients I’ve ever seen. (See our many posts here about her activism.) Aside from all her work on RAWarrior.com and her Foundation, see how she uses this case to teach. Peer-to-peer...
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e-Patient Dave
| October 30, 2012
All: I’d like to collect a list of all blog posts about this PCORI weekend, from SPM members (our Society) and anyone else. Please write to blog@participatorymedicine.org, and disregard the auto-reply that you’ll get. __________________ This post started...
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Kathleen O'Malley
| February 28, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a narrative by Kelly Young entitled “Present, Patient, and Accounted for: How and Why Patients Are Present at Scientific Meetings of the American College of Rheumatology.” Young describes how the...
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Jessie Gruman
| June 16, 2011
RA Warrior Kelly Young inquires in a post on Dr. Howard J. Luks’ blog. Dr. Bryan Vartebedian of 33 Charts adds his answer in a post on Better Health. What do you think: Are there lines that patients shouldn’t...
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