by Daniel Halpren-Ruder, MD | Sep 23, 2025
Healthcare works best when patients and providers work together as true partners. This fundamental principle of participatory medicine—where patients are active collaborators rather than passive recipients of care—has never been more important. Yet recent survey...
by Daniel Halpren-Ruder, MD | Oct 25, 2021
We Have Failed The Society for Participatory Medicine was founded in 2009 to transform the culture of care. A few years later, a comprehensive history of the forces that resulted in the creation of the Society was presented here by Millenson: Spock, feminists, and...
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