by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2017
What would you think if your fire department had expensive, snazzy fire trucks that failed to show up when needed? What would you think if a neighboring town had less fancy equipment but was incredibly dependable about using what it had? That’s pretty much the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 9, 2017
Sunnie Southern is an avid activist for better care, a proactive patient (very responsible), a long-time member of our Society for Participatory Medicine, and a good friend with an irrepressibly bright disposition. As I often say, “I’ve never seen anyone...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 7, 2017
We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 3, 2017
March 1, 1992. 25 years ago. Yesterday I asked When was “Enriching the relationship by inviting the patient perspective” published? The words in that paper’s abstract [right] could have been written today – literally every word. It was printworthy a...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Feb 20, 2017
In 2009, along with several physicians, patients and health activists, I helped form the Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit promoting “a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in...
by Ileana Balcu | Jan 10, 2017
Member Angela Lundberg’s blog article was just published for RheumatoidArthritis.net. It discusses the high out-of-pocket costs of health insurance for people who already have insurance. Health Insurance & RA: Dangerously Uncovered Besides the benefits she...
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