by e-Patient Dave | Mar 24, 2023
On Twitter this morning SPM member Stacy Hurt announced that the big pharma conference DIA Global in Boston this June is #PatientsIncluded. Several levels of support are available, including one full scholarship including travel expenses, plus ten free patient...
by Eric Bersh | Sep 19, 2022
Active surveillance (AS) for low-risk to intermediate-risk prostate cancer has been “an overnight success” that took 30 years to move from academia to mainstream practices. Since 2014, AS — close monitoring of low-risk prostate cancer with PSA blood testing,...
by Eric Bersh | Jan 27, 2022
After a happy couple has been dating and in a stable relationship for a while, they often decide to take a traditional, next, more permanent step to the institution of marriage. They make an announcement to kick it all off: “We’re engaged!” When we hear about an...
by Helga Yang | Nov 8, 2021
In the fall of 2020, in the depths of the pandemic, I attended the Philadelphia Inquirer Telling Your Health Story Conference from the safety of my home. I had volunteered to do the Story Slam at the end of the conference and planned on presenting a piece about caring...
by Geri Lynn Baumblatt | Oct 11, 2021
I have attended hundreds of conferences: patient experience, patient education, health tech, health literacy, shared decision making — and the best part has always been meeting other advocates, patients, and family caregivers. Too often, unfortunately, these...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 24, 2019
SPM member Brenda Denzler had Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), which was followed by years of intractable symptoms that her doctors couldn’t diagnose – all their tests kept saying she was “fine.” “But I live with this body,” she...
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