by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 9, 2012
In the latest post in our Why I Joined SPM series, guest blogger Ileana Balcu shares her story of pain, searching, and finally healing, once she discovered the e-patient community. Follow her on Twitter at @yogileana. It was 2002 and I was happily pregnant. I thought...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 6, 2011
Guest blogger Kathy Kastner shares her experience as an SPM member. Her website, Ability4Life, offers resources for participatory family caregivers. When I first heard the words “Participatory Medicine” I felt fully in synch, even without delving into its...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 16, 2011
Guest blogger Meredith Gould is on Twitter as @meredithgould and @HealthFaith. Over a year ago, I agreed to write about my personal experience with fibromyalgia for a new health and wellness site. The piece wasn’t going to be published for a while and although I...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2011
This is an unusual contribution in our series Why I Joined. As we’ve observed (August 2008, February 2009, February 2011) that language can be important in social movements, because as words change their meaning, messages can get crossed, and what a speaker...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2010
Next in our “Why I Joined” series is Victor Montori, MD of the Mayo Clinic. My wife and I met him in May; he’s high energy, with boundless optimism. And as you’ll see, he feels very strongly about patients being at the center of healthcare. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 25, 2010
Next in our series, Mark Boguski, MD, PhD is both a personal and a corporate member, as co-founder with Dr. Alan Littleford of ResoundingHealth. If you’d like to submit your own reason, write to me. (This is not an “invitation only” series –...
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