Why I joined Archives

Why I Joined SPM: Brad Power

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 11, 2020

Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member and lymphoma survivor Brad Power (LinkedIn) shares his journey to our society and our #S4PM2019 conference last October. Members can submit guest posts to our blog (guidelines). Join SPM here. Here’s the introduction...

Gail Phillips: My journey to the Society for Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 26, 2018

Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member Gail Phillips shares the odyssey that led her through numerous related disciplines, eventually discovering our society and our conference last October. Members can submit guest posts to our blog (guidelines). Join SPM...

Mark Sullivan: Who gets to define the clinical problem?

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 16, 2018

Guest post by SPM member Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, who is Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services at the University of WashingtonCenter for Pain Relief. We welcome guest posts from SPM members – see guidelines here. I joined the Society for Participatory...

My Mother’s Scrap of Paper

by Linda Stotsky | Sep 27, 2017

I’m known in social media for my role as @EMRAnswers. Most people don’t know the personal and family pain that makes me know how important this is. Here it is. (That’s me above, sharing my story at the Walking Gallery meetup at HIMSS in 2015 –...

How I became an e-patient: through practice, with coaching (using Lean on the patient side)

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 29, 2016

The next in our series of “How I became an e-patient” posts. Tyson Ortiz joined a few months ago, having been introduced to us by fellow Lean practitioner Mark Graban. His story weaves together two concurrent threads: learning about a new aspect of Lean,...

Why I joined SPM – and why maybe you should!

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 26, 2016

Guest post by John Hoben, who joined our Society in 2014 and has been a major contributor to discussions on our member listserv. He recently joined our board of directors. He has a particularly great story – he actually met Doc Tom long ago! – and I asked...