by e-Patient Dave | May 30, 2013
See my post about this on Forbes. This is as close as a call to arms as we ever get around here, given how collaborative we are. But this is a case of bad science and/or bad reporting, with clear harm to the participatory medicine movement. Whatever the reason, it...
by David Harlow | May 20, 2013
Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must...
by David Harlow | Apr 24, 2013
With the tireless help of Adrian Gropper, and the counsel of executive committee members Michael Millenson and Danny Sands who went above and beyond, and our President Sarah Krüg, the Society for Participatory Medicine’s Public Policy Committee completed a...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Apr 11, 2013
Are clinicians from Mars and e-Patients from Venus? My experience is e-patients and clinicians can agree that they seek best health. Yet there is such a disconnect, such frustration, so much of the time. Participatory medicine strives to bridge the gaps between...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 26, 2013
The overlap between the clinical aspects of our health journey and behavior of health team members occurs most often in medication management. Effective medication management depends on empowered, informed patients and caregivers prepared for clinician visits, and...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 27, 2013
Guest post by Elaine Waples, one of our new (today) members of SPM (with her husband Brian Klepper). This story illustrates one of the core dysfunctions in American medicine today – lack of coordination – and makes a compelling case for patients and...
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