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Participatory Medicine: An Administrator’s Point of View

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 23, 2016

Guest post by Mark Reifsteck [left], who joined our Society in 2014. Follow him on Twitter at @MarkWReifsteck. To become a member, individually or organizationally, see our Join Us page. It started innocently enough: I made an off-handed comment on the SPM member...

How can we achieve shared work, connection, and communication?

by Peter Elias | Oct 26, 2015

Peter Elias MD is a member at large on SPM’s board of directors. He’s a primary care physician in Maine who, when I first met him at a speaking event, said he’s always practiced this way but didn’t know it had a name – participatory...

on the complexity of problems and ePatients as innovators

by Nick Dawson | Feb 9, 2015

One of our Society’s best kept secrets is the composition of our membership. And lately, some of my best collaborations are coming out of conversations with fellow members. Last week, as I frenetically packed for a trip, I was chatting on the phone with our own...

Thanks from the Philippines

by Ileana Balcu | Nov 27, 2013

In this guest blog post, member Beatrice Tiangco describes some of the pain and suffering in the Philippines after the typhoon and expresses her gratitude for the SPM, local community and overall support. Beatrice Tiangco is a practicing Medical Oncologist from the...

New SPM Members Bring Magic Levers and Untanglers for Healthcare

by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 14, 2012

This listserv exchange between new Society for Participatory Medicine members is a nice example of how “newbie” e-patients often come to us with decades of experience and well-honed (and well-blogged) philosophies of what healthcare should be and can be....

“People without medical background can understand if you tell it in a language they understand”

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...