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Has your doctor ever talked to you like this Oliver Wendell Holmes quote?

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 14, 2016

A large part of our work here at the Society for Participatory Medicine is about changing culture of healthcare. In such times, I’d useful to look at our roots. Here’s an attitude tidbit from 1871 that our friends at the BMJ published sixteen years ago....

Eric Dishman’s transformational speech on his last day at Intel: “Knowledge is survival”

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 7, 2016

https://vimeo.com/169280480 I’ve known Eric Dishman for about five years, because we’re both kidney cancer patients. I’ve known that he’s a really sharp thinker, and a high-ranking executive at Intel, deeply interested in and involved in their...

CCCC conference announces inaugural class of palliative care e-patients

by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2016

Guest post by SPM member Liz Salmi of CCCC, an organizational member and supporter of our Society for Participatory Medicine. Note also (at bottom) that this event provides a model for other organizations to follow: patient participation is enabled by a foundation...

White Paper Introduction: “Tech is changing how we think about ourselves” #DocTom10

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 21, 2016

Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. If you haven’t read about Tom’s preface, and the Foreword by Pew Research, we urge you to. Remember, this was all written a decade ago. Today, Tom’s introduction. Please discuss! The key...

Warmly Remembering Tom Ferguson & His Legacy #DocTom10

by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2016

Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. I first met Tom Ferguson in 1994 online (where else?) when he reached out via email to chat about online support groups. I was still in graduate school at the time, and he had come across my indexes of Internet...