by Alan Greene | Jun 5, 2012 |
At Health Datapalooza today in Washington, DC, the Society for Participatory Medicine announced the live beta launch of our Seal Program. The SPM Seal will be awarded to clinicians and to patients who make four simple, achievable, but powerful participatory...
by Alan Greene | May 27, 2009 |
Not Your Father’s Doctor-Patient Relationship – A Positively Revolutionary Approach In pediatrics, research has shown that not all parenting styles produce equal outcomes. Researchers often categorize parenting styles into four groups according to parents’ level of...
by Alan Greene | Dec 7, 2008 |
On Friday Senator Tom Daschle announced a campaign to get input from the public about what healthcare reform should look like. “The Transition will host Health Care Community Discussions across the Country over the holidays this December to help his Policy Team...
by Alan Greene | Oct 26, 2008 |
Thomas Jefferson had a radical notion: When the people are well-informed, they can be trusted to govern themselves. This powerful idea worked to end our rule by the King, but at the time it didn’t apply to slaves; it didn’t apply to women. It STILL...
by Alan Greene | Oct 9, 2008 |
I just heard from Gary Kreps, Professor of Health Communication at George Mason University and e-patient pioneer, reporting about drastic cutbacks to the Cancer Information Service programs. Excellent up-to-date information is an important foundation for Participatory...
by Alan Greene | Jul 8, 2008 |
Our dear friend, our brother, our hero, the inimitable Doc Tom, died on Good Friday 2006. Even though his untimely death came as a shock, Tom Ferguson had already far outlived the projections at the time of his Myeloma diagnosis over 15 years before. July 8 is Tom’s...
by Alan Greene | Jan 15, 2008 |
In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called “When the Patient is a Googler”. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research...
by Alan Greene | Jun 12, 2007 |
Four months ago I had the opportunity to backpack with my son Kevin from the south rim of the Grand Canyon down thousands of feet to the floor of the inner canyon (and then back up again). As we descended, we passed through layer after layer of geologic time, seen...
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