by e-Patient Dave | Mar 8, 2021
Time for change! The theme of our 2019 conference was #Time4Change. This post kicks off a major 2021 campaign for our Society: the Participatory Medicine Manifesto. At that event we took action: in a design-thinking exercise, attendees crowdsourced the ideas that have...
by Brian Mack | Jul 10, 2020
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, “A compass will point you to true north, but it doesn’t show you the swamps. If you get bogged down, what’s the use of knowing the direction?” When on a journey, it’s a good policy to periodically take...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 26, 2018
Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member Gail Phillips shares the odyssey that led her through numerous related disciplines, eventually discovering our society and our conference last October. Members can submit guest posts to our blog (guidelines). Join SPM...
by Peter Elias | Sep 27, 2018
A recent medical society article demonstrates that participatory medicine advocates have made progress. The central point of the article is that the current approach to metrics distracts from the need to focus on the patient. As the authors phrase it: “There are...
by John Novack | Sep 10, 2018
First in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. Doug Lindsay calls himself as Transformational Thought Leader, an apt...
Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health CareNovember 30, 2022
A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital HealthNovember 15, 2022
SPM and health equity: is our Manifesto equitable? Join us Oct. 20October 10, 2022
Storytelling: Where Compassion is BornOctober 6, 2022
Building Us Up, Not Tearing Us DownSeptember 27, 2022
Recent Comments