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From incurable to “We can now call you cured”: Cheryl Greene’s story

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 11, 2009

Here’s another true e-patient story from one of our team. Cheryl Greene is third from the left in the banner at top of this blog. She’s a long-time friend of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson, a board member of the Society for Participatory...

Why Participatory Medicine?

by Danny Sands, MD | Nov 9, 2009

For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a public...

Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health

by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 21, 2009

Press release for the October 22nd launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine: Improving health care: Journal of Participatory Medicine will document methods that work for patient/provider collaboration Launch at Connected Health Symposium features essays by...

A quote I won’t soon forget

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 15, 2009

Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician, long-time editor of NEJM. So it was a bit of a shock today when Amy Romano, blogger for Lamaze International, sent me this quote: It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is...

Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

by Susannah Fox | Oct 14, 2009

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was...

#WhyPM?

by Gilles Frydman | Oct 13, 2009

Note: if you do not use Twitter an explanation of this post’s title may be in order. #WhyPM is the Twitter hashtag we have been using collectively to announce the launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and to mention topics of interest from the Journal and...