by Gilles Frydman | Jun 17, 2008
Starting in the mid 90s a new paradigm of medicine was born ― first as a grassroots movement and then rapidly evolving into a phenomenon of great interest to public health professionals who started early to study its potential impact on the healthcare system. This...
by Susannah Fox | May 15, 2008
I think participatory medicine is what Eric Raymond calls a “plausible promise”: something big enough to inspire interest yet achievable enough to inspire confidence. Reforming health care is too big for most people to grasp; creating spaces for participatory medicine...
by e-Patient Dave | May 11, 2008
Chapter 12 of Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture opens with a classic anecdote of what it looks like when an empowered patient practices participatory medicine with an equally participatory care team: CT scans revealed I had pancreatic cancer, and it...
by Eric Bersh | Aug 7, 2024
Over the past several months, SPM’s board has engaged in a planning effort, as it approaches the fifteenth anniversary of its creation. Our goal is to assess the state of the Participatory Medicine movement and discern where SPM could have its greatest impact in...
by Danny Sands, MD | May 6, 2024
I care for a diverse population of individuals in my primary care practice. It’s hard enough to motivate behavior change in people who have little motivation, but it’s even more challenging when it’s hard to connect with them because of cultural disparities....
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