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A Patient-Centric Definition of Participatory Medicine

by | Apr 2, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of...

Ahem. :-)

by | Dec 16, 2009

I am about to punk my well-known doctor. :–) Me being me, I just had my annual physical. Great visit and all that. Yesterday I got a letter about my lab results. My cholesterol and weight are trending unfavorably, so the good doctor said “you need to take...

Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

by | Dec 10, 2009

There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an...

Why the Journal of Participatory Medicine?

by | Oct 12, 2009

Next week at the  Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie...

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