by e-Patient Dave | Mar 24, 2012
In the latest post in our Why I Joined SPM series, guest blogger Dr. Nabin Sapkota shares his story of discovering that patients like to be taught what’s going on, and how this replaced what he’d lost when he gave up doing teaching rounds. Every “why...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2012
Associate Editor Aubrey Westgate has a good, solid new piece in the March Physicians Practice magazine about interacting with patients who get engaged with their care by seeking health information on the internet. SPM member Trisha Torrey of Every Patient’s...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 16, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published “An Introduction to Self-Care,” a personal narrative by psychiatrist Sana Johnson-Quijada. Inspired by a positive family experience with collaborative care, the author was emboldened to modify her...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 13, 2012
Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15....
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 28, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a narrative by Kelly Young entitled “Present, Patient, and Accounted for: How and Why Patients Are Present at Scientific Meetings of the American College of Rheumatology.” Young describes how the...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 16, 2012
Serendipity brought me two opportunities this week to present Pew Internet’s data on communities of color and young people, particularly as it relates to health. On Wednesday I was a guest of the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council and on Thursday I spoke at a meeting...
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