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...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 10, 2018
Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2018
[Update: this post has been picked up and cross-posted on the widely read The Health Care Blog] Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2018
Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 3, 2018
Here’s the latest in a series of posts about the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. (Our #SPM2018 series has more about the speakers and...
by John Novack | Sep 26, 2018
Here’s the latest in a series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here....
by John Novack | Sep 24, 2018
Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. And see this blog’s #SPM2018 series for more about, or by, the speakers and...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 17, 2018
For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Casey will be a speaker at #SPM2018 on Oct 17, in a session with Ivan Handler of the Insightamation blog – “Thoughts and provocations on...
by John Novack | Sep 17, 2018
Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. Embracing participatory medicine has helped Gabe Howard @GabeHoward29 manage...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 14, 2018
I joined the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine (sorry, I have to shorten it to SPM) about one year ago. I joined because I honestly think health care is f$#%#’ed up and I want to make a difference. We all agree about the problems, but my views on...
by John Novack | Sep 10, 2018
First in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. Doug Lindsay calls himself as Transformational Thought Leader, an apt...
by Danny van Leeuwen | 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,...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 6, 2018
UPDATE FOR ATTENDEES: Try to arrive 10 minutes early — 10:50 am — to get oriented. On arrival a host will scan your badge and point you to the big round “Discovery desk” where we’ll gather. We’ll talk a bit for 10 minutes, then...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2018
This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here, including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 29, 2017
I’m way late in blogging this – too much travel and jet lag – but WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled ““Participatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” (web page), it produced...
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