by Ileana Balcu | Jun 19, 2017
Lawrence “Larry” Weed (born December 1923, died June 3, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records....
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2016
A new article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine explores an area that apparently has had no prior literature: the effect of gardening on how well stroke patients engage in their care. From the abstract: Five main themes were identified from interviews and...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 2, 2015
Our society’s open-access Journal of Participatory Medicine has not gotten enough play, so to speak, on this blog. Let’s try posting something about each article as it emerges. Email subscribers will receive them like any other post; online these posts...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2015
Perhaps it’s time for an argument about how we’re doing this. Many of us in the Society for Participatory Medicine have long noted that what we’re up to here is nothing less than full-bore culture change. In my own speeches I often note that culture...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 29, 2014
An article of importance to our movement appeared in June, in our Journal of Participatory Medicine. It’s an analysis of twelve years of literature about patient engagement, documenting what words people used, what context they appeared in, and (perhaps most...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 26, 2014
We don’t tell you often enough here of new pieces in JoPM, our Journal of Participatory Medicine. Of course you can subscribe to the journal on their site, but I hope to specifically point things out here. (See also our past posts in the JoPM category.) Here are...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 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...
by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2014
SPM co-founder Charlie Smith (Charles W. Smith, MD) was “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s own physician, and currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of our Journal of Participatory Medicine. He’s just published a brief but important editorial in the journal....
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 30, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine received a nice recommendation from Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in his blogpost on where to find reliable information about patient-centered medicine. Levy also recommends a new non-profit site...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 4, 2012
Co-Editors-in-Chief Joe and Terry Graedon tell patients how to get the most out of today’s all-too-brief medical office visits in the April editorial of the Journal of Participatory Medicine. “Making Every Second Count – What We Can Do As Patients”...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 16, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published “An Introduction to Self-Care,” a personal narrative by psychiatrist Sana Johnson-Quijada. Inspired by a positive family experience with collaborative care, the author was emboldened to modify her...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 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...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 1, 2012
A new Journal of Participatory Medicine tradition has just launched. Our monthly editorial series will tackle the toughest questions of participatory medicine, from both the patient and the provider side. The first installment, by Joe and Terry Graedon, is titled...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 11, 2012
A new article in the Journal of Participatory Medicine tackles the problem of long wait times at doctors’ offices, a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction. “Waiting Room Remedy: Doctor Pays for Delays (The Doctor’s Perspective)” by Pamela...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 29, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published “The Patient Will See You Now,” a thought-provoking and rather moving narrative by John Krueger, MD. In telling his own story of becoming and maturing as a physician, the author persuasively argues...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 22, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a review of A Symphony in the Brain, a book that offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 14, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a pair of complementary articles, one by a patient advocate and one by a physician, both concerning the story of a woman who worked tirelessly to obtain better health care for her two chronically ill and...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 1, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a research paper entitled “Promoting Participatory Medicine with Social Media: New Media Applications on Hospital Websites that Enhance Health Education and e-Patients’ Voices.” The study analyzed the...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 21, 2011
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...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 13, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a new case study entitled “Autonomy in Jeopardy: Contrasting Participatory Health Models with Patient Decision Making Under Mental Health Law.” The authors examine the problem of how to achieve patient...
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