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 e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2016
We’ve often written here about open access medical literature (freely available) vs “paywalled” journals. It’s a controversial subject, and this guest post is about an idea I’ve never heard of: a hackathon to explore the subject. (In the...
by Gilles Frydman | May 24, 2012
Update 1 June 3: if you’re not familiar with the Open Access issue, start with Peter Schmidt’s comment below, citing a 2008 journal article on the issue, by a former editor of the British Medical Journal. ___________Â Update 2 June 3 @9:50 AM PST: we are...
by Susannah Fox | May 5, 2009
Update on 12/3/14: Nature re-ignited the access debate when they announced that they will make all their articles “free to view” (but if you read the fine print: it makes the “dark social” practice of #icanhazpdf and other access work-arounds...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2020
As regular readers know, our Society for Participatory Medicine has always been a strong advocate for the OpenNotes movement as a key enabler of patient power. As co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they...
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