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A Family’s Guide to the ICU: Series Introduction

A Family’s Guide to the ICU: Series Introduction

By | July 15, 2019
 

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...
Getting Your Doctor to Really See You

Getting Your Doctor to Really See You

By | November 9, 2018
 

Doctors are regularly deluged with advice on how to engage patients. But how can you, as a patient, get your doctor to truly engage with you as a person? Your health and even your life could depend upon it. By “engage,” I don’t mean just the doctor not interrupting...
Cinderblocks 2018

Cinderblocks 2018

By | May 27, 2018
 

Thanks to support from SPM Travel Fund I attended Regina Holliday’s Cinderblocks Conference in Grantsville, MD. Still pound-for-pound the best conference going. Several days of local and national presentations about health, public health, and advocacy.  Small,...
Lived Experience + Expertise = Value

Lived Experience + Expertise = Value

By | July 22, 2017
 

Recently I connected a patient expert in insurance and provider billing with a patient at the tail end of chemo struggling with huge unexpected bills. I introduced a cancer survivor with web design skills to a patient advocate setting up a new blog. I linked a parent...
From the UK: “Habits of an Improver”

From the UK: “Habits of an Improver”

By | June 7, 2017
 

We in the Society for Participatory Medicine are in many stages of awakening to our potential as active participants in the health system. Some have a particular focus on a disease or a technology; many of us come to it through our own experience (good or bad) as a...

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