by e-Patient Dave | Oct 12, 2009
Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2009
We have wonderful news: next week Grand Rounds is devoted to Participatory Medicine. We are asking for your personal stories of how patient engagement has worked for you. It’s being hosted by Robin, the incredible patient who runs the Survive The Journey blog....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2009
“While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that’s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 4, 2009
If you haven’t already, please watch this, which is the best concise introduction to e-patients and participatory medicine I’ve seen: Susannah Fox mentioned this video six weeks ago, in a quickie post in our “found on the net” sidebar. But that...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 3, 2009
That’s the strongest language yet in our “Why Participatory Medicine” series. And it’s not our words – it’s the words of a board certified neurosurgeon after he heard the Participatory Medicine message at Medicine 2.0 last month....
by Susannah Fox | Oct 2, 2009
In politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access. The passion we saw in the political campaigns last year is matched by the passion we see when someone is trying to save a life, find a better treatment, or just manage the health of a loved one....
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