by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 8, 2012
Guest blogger Helen Palmquist is a member of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance support community, hosted by Inspire. She lives in suburban Chicago. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 41, in the pre-Web days of 1987. From my hospital bed after my first...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 9, 2012
In the latest post in our Why I Joined SPM series, guest blogger Ileana Balcu shares her story of pain, searching, and finally healing, once she discovered the e-patient community. Follow her on Twitter at @yogileana. It was 2002 and I was happily pregnant. I thought...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 31, 2011
It’s fitting that our last post of the year should be about a patient community … winning an award! ACOR’s “KIDNEY-ONC” kidney cancer patient community was recently honored with the “Maily” Listserv Choice award in this, the...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011
To read this post in English, click here. HacÃa tiempo que tenÃamos en mente la posibilidad de llevar a cabo la traducción del Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes al Español, ya que con más de 420 millones de hispanoparlantes en todo el planeta, nuestro idioma es ya la...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011
It’s been a  long time coming, but it’s here! From the English “e-Patients: How they can help us heal health care,” you can now click to download the Spanish e-Pacientes: cómo nos pueden ayudar a mejorar la salud. To read this post in Spanish,...
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...
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