by e-Patient Dave | Mar 30, 2016
Somehow I’d never heard of National Doctors’ Day, but apparently it started 25 years ago, in 1991. As one of many SPM members whose life was saved (or is being helped) by excellent physicians, I’m in! And I want to shine a broader spotlight on the...
by David Harlow | Feb 27, 2016
The recent Precision Medicine Initiative Summit at the White House saw dozens of private entities committing to join with the administration in supercharging the effort to enroll one million patients into precision medicine research programs, collecting and securely...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 26, 2016
Guest post by John Hoben, who joined our Society in 2014 and has been a major contributor to discussions on our member listserv. He recently joined our board of directors. He has a particularly great story – he actually met Doc Tom long ago! – and I asked...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2016
At 10 ET today (Feb 25) Donna will be a guest at the White House Precision Medicine Initiative, with several other members of our Society. Watch it on livestream. See also our post on the PMI event a year ago by then-president Nick Dawson. I’m thrilled to announce...
by Danny Sands, MD | Feb 2, 2016
A fundamental precept of participatory medicine is that health care should not be a spectator sport—it’s best practiced in a participatory manner. This requires engagement from both the patient and the clinician. Yet the typical behavior of health encounters is not...
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