by Eric Bersh | Apr 27, 2022
Curled up on her hospital gurney but unable to sleep, the middle-aged Latinx female trauma patient sighed, “I am tired of being tired.” Before daybreak, “Rosa” (not her real name) had arrived at work to open her New York restaurant but was interrupted by an intruder...
by Daniel Halpren-Ruder, MD | Oct 25, 2021
We Have Failed The Society for Participatory Medicine was founded in 2009 to transform the culture of care. A few years later, a comprehensive history of the forces that resulted in the creation of the Society was presented here by Millenson: Spock, feminists, and...
by Mohammed Mallouh | Jul 14, 2021
In 2013 the Institute of Medicine published a landmark 436 page consensus report, Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. Its summary contains the characteristics of a continuously learning system: Note that the second...
by Danny Sands, MD | Apr 9, 2020
Prologue from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 31, 2019
Sara RIggare, one of the earliest members of our Society, has just received a great honor: Fokus magazine (“Sweden’s Time”) has named her “Swede of the Year” in medicine. In the photo from the award ceremony she seems appropriately...
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