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NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 23, 2010

Updated 3/12/2014 with new links at bottom. One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering,...

e-Patients, send video messages to @Berci’s med students

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 19, 2010

If you haven’t found him yet, Bertalan Meskó is one of the best new-generation doctors making the most of social media. While he was still a med student his ScienceRoll blog won Blogger’s Choice in 2007, and last month it won Medgadget’s prestigious...

What would a checklist for patients look like?

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 17, 2010

This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let’s get to work. Checklists in hospitals can...

Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 10, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a new paradigm in healthcare, one that promises to enhance healthcare efficiency, transform the experience for both the patient and their providers, and improve healthcare outcomes. This cultural shift requires adaptation among healthcare...

Patient to doctor: “Why aren’t you harder on me?”

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 8, 2010

A joint post by e-Patient Dave and Dr. Danny Sands, written from alternating points of view. Danny: An important moment happened a few months ago during office hours – important because it brought a profound shift in Dave’s view of the doctor-patient...