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...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 7, 2011
The Journal has just published a commentary by SPM member Kathy Kastner, “My 8-Point Participatory Philosophy: What Makes Me a Participatory Patient.” The author describes the “aha moment” when she decided to become a participatory patient and...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 29, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a research paper, “Exploring Everyday Health Routines of a Low Socioeconomic Population through Multimedia Elicitations.” Participants in this novel study used smartphones to capture pictures and...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 16, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a review of “Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness.” Writer Meredith Linden, who lives with bipolar disorder, describes how the selections in this book can help validate people struggling with...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 9, 2011
Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still...
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