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More important than Time and Money

More important than Time and Money

Mortality is a fabric more important than money, politics, and belief systems.  We all share the same responsibility of health; the only variable is the time in our life we acknowledge it. Rare/undiagnosed consumer behavior is the most intense example of participatory...
The Killing of Brian Thompson was Awful

The Killing of Brian Thompson was Awful

The news cycle is moving on, but the killing of Brian Thompson was awful, no matter how one feels about the shortcomings of the American health care system. In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Andrew Witty, president of the UnitedHealth Group, wrote that no one...
2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

Our goal for the Society for Participatory Medicine in 2023 was to expand awareness of participatory medicine ([PM)] and SPM post-Covid and build new insights into the value of PM. We developed two curriculum modules, one on participatory medicine and the other on...
Team Building In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Team Building In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Editor’s note: In her new book, Communicating Through a Pandemic: A Chronicle of Experiences, Lessons Learned, and a Vision for the Future, Amelia Burke-Garcia, PhD, MA explores the many and varied roles that communication has played over the course of this pandemic,...
Building for Success: How Good Clinicians Can Empower Patients

Building for Success: How Good Clinicians Can Empower Patients

Editor’s note: Ibrahim Rashid contracted Long COVID more than two years ago. The experience is propelling his patient advocacy and entrepreneurship, as co-founder of the digital health company Strong Haulers. In this excerpt from his new book, Strong Hauler: Learning...
The Power of the Prescription Pad

The Power of the Prescription Pad

At some point in our lives, we’ll be handed a little sheet of paper from our physician that has scribbled on it the medication we need, how much of it, and how often we should take it. These little slips of paper are power. They tell us that in order to get better, we...
A Reminder of How To Care Through Self-Reflection

A Reminder of How To Care Through Self-Reflection

After 28 years of  nursing I could potentially consider myself an expert in the field. But this perception couldn’t be further from the truth. I still come home from a shift and often wonder and hope that I brought comfort to at least one patient. Did I do enough?...
Glimmers of Hope: Real Progress In Participatory Medicine

Glimmers of Hope: Real Progress In Participatory Medicine

Twenty-five years ago, I learned I had a large liposarcoma in my left quadricep. I have written elsewhere about my surprise when my surgeon informed me that he and the team had changed the treatment plan. What team? Who are these people? Why wasn’t I at the team...

AI Gives SPM a New Opportunity to Lead

I recently posted an article entitled, “In Cancer, Patient-Empowering AI Begins to Change Care, Relationships,” that contained this declaration, “Good medicine needs to become participatory medicine, not least because involving the patient as a partner consistently...

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