by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2016 |
Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. I first met Tom Ferguson in 1994 online (where else?) when he reached out via email to chat about online support groups. I was still in graduate school at the time, and he had come across my indexes of Internet...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2016 |
Third in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. Yesterday I asked that you download Ferguson’s white paper, the manifesto he was working on when he died unexpectedly, ten years ago tomorrow. Today we’ll look at the preface. The lost section:...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2016 |
“Doc Tom” Ferguson, the source of our Society for Participatory Medicine, died unexpectedly ten years ago this week, April 14, 2006. In the coming days we’ll run a series of posts remembering his work and vision. Especially, we’re going to walk...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2015 |
Dr. Danny Sands is one of the co-founders of our Society for Participatory Medicine, a great primary care physician, and a real thought leader who’s been doing this modern stuff for twenty years. (He co-authored the first journal paper on how to do...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2015 |
Here’s something I’ve never done: I’m capturing a comment from this blog five years ago and making it a post of its own, so it’s easier to find, because I think this is going to be more and more of an issue. It’s clearer and clearer that,...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 2, 2015 |
Yesterday super-e-patients Regina Holliday, Michael Seres and I spoke on a webcast titled “End-to-End Patient Engagement that Drives Loyalty and Outcomes,” hosted by Liz Boehm of Vocera.com’s @EINHealth Experience Innovation Network. Frankly, we...
by Casey Quinlan | Sep 9, 2015 |
A guest post from member Jeffrey Halbstein-Harris – this is a small slice of a longer piece he used as the basis for a speaking engagement. This is a call to consumers: my brothers and sisters who rely on healthcare and its infrastructure’s support throughout...
by Danny Sands, MD | Jun 1, 2015 |
Ever since the formation of the Society for Participatory Medicine we have discussed curating and sharing resources about participatory medicine. The resources might be videos, websites, blog posts, tutorials, and other online resources that could benefit patients,...
by Casey Quinlan | Feb 24, 2015 |
We’d bet good money that anyone who identifies as an e-patient has been led to believe that their desire to participate actively in their medical care marks them as a “demanding patient.” The perception of demanding patients is that they’re...
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...
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