by e-Patient Dave | Apr 21, 2016
We’ve often written here about palliative care and end of life. (The two are not the same: you can have palliative care without having decided the end is near.) They’re, in a sense, the ultimate expression of patient-centered care, forcing the...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 2, 2014
We often say here that clinicians should welcome activated patients. Hand in glove with that, we must also say: Yo, patients: get activated! Know what works, and act on it! Huzzah to Swedish SPM member and Parkinson’s patient Sara Riggare for this, on Facebook,...
by Nancy Finn | Jun 27, 2013
Decades ago, most people died at home. Today health care technology including various surgical procedures, the use of feeding tubes, ventilators, CPR, dialysis, and blood transfusions, has put patients and physicians in the precarious position of having to choose...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 22, 2011
One of the highlights of 2011 for me was the introduction in May (see our post) of the Engagement Behavior Framework by SPM member (and JoPM founding co-editor) Jesse Gruman. She and her team methodically identified 43 behaviors to be done by an engaged patient or...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jan 9, 2011
From the editors of our society’s journal, the Journal of Participatory Medicine: As we close out Volume 2 of JoPM, we’re pleased to look back at how the journal has grown. We published a total of 23 articles in 2010. We published our first two podcasts....
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