by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2011
The Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented last week at the 14th  ICSI/IHI Colloquium. (ICSI is the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a small midwestern think tank that’s way too poorly known.) SPM members who presented: Jane...
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....
by Susannah Fox | Dec 28, 2010
Jessie Gruman’s Journal of Participatory Medicine commentary, “Evidence That Engagement Does Make a Difference,” reminded me of a talk delivered by Alice Tolbert Coombs, M.D., last September: As you listen to Dr. Coombs’s chilling story about...
by Charlie Smith | Sep 22, 2010
The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM), the online peer-reviewed, open access publication of the Society for Participatory Medicine, has released new content for its 2010 volume. The journal’s mission is to transform the culture of medicine from a delivery...
by Peter Frishauf | Aug 26, 2010
We welcome Peter Frishauf as an author on our blog. Peter is on the Editorial Board [brief bio] of our Society’s Journal of Participatory Medicine, and as described below, has already authored some important material on this subject. His first post here is...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 7, 2010
Last night I got word of an unexpected treat: an hour-long conversation between some real experts about participatory medicine. It’s on Andrew Schorr’s Patient Power site – he and his team are powerhouses as well, and they produced a special...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 21, 2009
Press release for the October 22nd launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine: Improving health care: Journal of Participatory Medicine will document methods that work for patient/provider collaboration Launch at Connected Health Symposium features essays by...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 12, 2009
Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie...
by Charlie Smith | Sep 17, 2009
Matthew Herper’s post about thalidomide treatment of Myeloma is a good example of how patients will contribute to medical knowledge in the future, and may form a cautionary tale for patients who get involved to this degree in formulating new treatment...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 11, 2008
This blog is a project of the Society for Participatory Medicine. To contact us: Blog team: blog at participatorymedicine.org Society for Participatory Medicine: Â info at participatorymedicine.org Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM.org):...
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