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Nancy Finn: Personalized medicine and participatory medicine intersect
There's no stopping an idea whose time has come. SPM member Nancy Finn (@NFinn8421), in the process of her own odyssey as a health care thinker, had an epiphany that strongly echoes the principles of the growing P4 Medicine movement ("predictive, personalized,...
Michael Millenson: When the patient’s wish was irrelevant
We're thrilled to welcome well-known quality and safety authority Michael Millenson as the newest member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here is his first guest post, referring back to his popular article in our Journal. He illustrates how recently the...
Interactive timeline of EHR history
Katie Matlack at SoftwareAdvice.com has posted an interactive timeline of EHR history. Interesting to see how things unfolded long ago. Â Note, too, two long-ago pivotal moments: The late 1960s introduction of Larry Weed, MD's Problem-Oriented Medical Record,...
For some people, it’s still 1994
Here's a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris, director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public. We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences...
.5 x .5: Deconstructing Margolis
As often happens, a Susannah Fox post has led to lingering questions. This time I've figured out what I want to say.:-) Last week, in a side note on her World AIDS Day post, she inserted this: ... Let’s review the basic math of health services delivery in the U.S.,...
Kathy Kastner: Why I joined is not why I’ve stayed
Guest blogger Kathy Kastner shares her experience as an SPM member. Her website, Ability4Life, offers resources for participatory family caregivers. When I first heard the words "Participatory Medicine" I felt fully in synch, even without delving into its practical...
Monthly introduction for new subscribers
We're taking a page from our good friend @Berci, whose ScienceRoll blog has won numerous awards. He frequently runs an introduction post for new subscribers, to show them around the place and let them know all the things he's up to. We're stealing it: we'll run this...
How Doctors Die
If you're interested in a responsible approach to one's own death, you'll want to read How Doctors Die, on the Zocalo Public Square blog. It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them...
@AfternoonNapper on two Stanford medicine blogs
New SPM member @AfternoonNapper Sarah Kucharski was just featured on the Stanford School of Medicine blog, for a conversation she had on their Medicine X blog (emerging technologies) about how web-savvy patients are changing what's acceptable in medicine. Well done!
Once again: e-patient essential – sorting out what writings to trust
A prime benefit of individual membership ($30) in our Society for Participatory Medicine is the right to participate in our members-only listserv. It was pretty sleepy a year ago, but these days it's a hotbed of juicy discussions. Here's something that arose Thursday....
World AIDS Day
Mark Senak's post, "World AIDS Day: The Past Cannot Be the Future," inspired me to write an epic comment about different perspectives on illness and care delivery, so I adapted and expanded it to share here: I recently read Susan Sontag's two essays, "Illness as...
Health News Review gets its second makeover. With comments!
We've often cited Gary Schwitzer's Health News Review (@HealthNewsRevu on Twitter)Â as an invaluable e-patient resource. With a structured ten point evaluation process, the site's many trained reviewers evaluate the reporting of health news. We reported on their first...
