by e-Patient Dave | May 7, 2020
Editor’s note: This post is from Amber Soucy MSN, RN, a board member of our Society for Participatory Medicine. Like many front-line health workers she hides the stress (see her profile photo at right), but this era is tough in ways nobody ever signed up for,...
by Geri Lynn Baumblatt | Mar 19, 2020
“Information therapy” has long been part of the participatory medicine mindset. (See our 2007 post that mentions Josh Seidman PhD’s Center for Information Therapy – he went on to be president of SPM.) In the COVID-19 era, now more than ever,...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 17, 2020
“The cure for anxiety is knowledge and preparation.” That line is from the hip and edgy (and smart) Stanford doc @ZDoggMD in the amazing live conversation on YouTube he had with his 12 year old daughter last Friday. Here are some resources. Society for...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 11, 2020
Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member and lymphoma survivor Brad Power (LinkedIn) shares his journey to our society and our #S4PM2019 conference last October. Members can submit guest posts to our blog (guidelines). Join SPM here. Here’s the introduction...
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 23, 2019
As I was volunteering for SPM, it took years to learn its history and understand where we are, how the Society got created, and why it is what it is. This is not a historical well-documented history of SPM, it’s my imperfect interpretation of its history. Doc Tom...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 19, 2019
I’ve just discovered something I’ve long hoped to see: a training module to teach medical students about e-patients and how to interact with them! It’s a paper in the journal Medical Teacher: “But Dr Google said…” – Training medical students how to...
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 15, 2019
My painting teacher, Wes Sherman, calls himself a conservator. He shares paintings, pictures, and tidbits of art history with special attention to artists that inspire him. I learned so much from a year of tidbits shared on Instagram. As I was driving back from the...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 31, 2019
In 2009, the Society for Participatory Medicine was created to continue the work of “Doc Tom” Ferguson (1943-2006), the founder of the e-patient movement and a true visionary who foresaw decades ago that “e-patients” (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled)...
by Michael Millenson | Oct 4, 2019
(This post originally appeared Oct. 2, 2019 on EngagingPatients.org) The dating site Match.com wants to help singles “find the kind of relationship they’re looking for” by providing “the tools they need to help take the lottery out of love.” The Centers for Medicare...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 9, 2019
Our Society’s 2nd Annual “Doc Tom” Awards are now open for nominations! Spread the word, and join us at our annual conference on October 15 for the announcement of our award recipients! Doc Tom Ferguson was the founder of the e-patient movement. To promote his values,...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2019
My name is Narinder Singh. I joined SPM in April. That’s my mom in the photo above. Last year our family was caught by surprise when she had a completely unexpected and dramatic ICU stay of three months. We had a lot to learn fast and too little help, and when...
by Danny Sands, MD | May 2, 2019
On Tuesday, April 30, a roomful of health care insiders enjoyed a series of rapid-fire, TED-esque talks, interviews, and panels by leading health care voices at The Atlantic Summit on Health Care (#AtlanticPulse). Several SPM members attended the forum, and we...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2019
What if you hired a financial manager to handle your money – a trusted professional, like that guy above – then discovered they didn’t know what they were doing, and your records were a mess? How would you feel? That’s pretty much what happened...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 27, 2019
This is a guest post by SPM member, heart patient and author Elizabeth Rankin, BScN. Some background: one of the most-discussed topics on our blog is shared decision-making (SDM), with pages and pages of posts (75 in the category), dating back to 2010’s Salzburg...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 7, 2019
On Facebook last Friday our member Carla Berg Nelson posted briefly about a new Psychology Today blog post, Data: the New Window into Humanity, by John Nosta. She tagged a number of other members (and non). I know and respect Nosta from his days creating a LinkedIn...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 4, 2018
Our Society for Participatory Medicine is growing in membership and in projects and teams. If you’re a member, have you considered leading a team? If you’re not, have you considered joining? The message below was posted last weekend by co-founder and...
by Michael Millenson | Nov 9, 2018
Doctors are regularly deluged with advice on how to engage patients. But how can you, as a patient, get your doctor to truly engage with you as a person? Your health and even your life could depend upon it. By “engage,” I don’t mean just the doctor not interrupting...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 2, 2018
Lifetime SPM member Deborah Greenwood is a diabetes educator who has long believed in patient empowerment and participatory medicine. SPM welcomes posts authored by our members – see the guidelines. November is Diabetes Awareness Month. And November 14, 2018 is...
by Sue Woods | Oct 29, 2018
On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. Filling a larger room than last year, attendees – in person and virtual – enjoyed an impressive lineup of speakers. The passion in the room was palpable. Much more to come on that. A...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 15, 2018
Here’s the last in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Last chance: register here....
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