{"id":16824,"date":"2014-12-02T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=16824"},"modified":"2014-12-02T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:34:46","slug":"activate-your-super-patient-powers-public-event-free-at-brown-next-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2014\/12\/activate-your-super-patient-powers-public-event-free-at-brown-next-monday.html","title":{"rendered":"“Activate your super-patient powers”: Public event (free!) at Brown next Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cross-posted from my own site<\/a>. This is about a free, non-commercial event that’s intended to be a radical exploration of a new way to discuss participatory thinking\u00a0with people who don’t live in health policy circles – ordinary citizens!<\/em>
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For years I’ve been saying that this movement won’t really be creating change until it gets out of the conference world and reaches Main Street. (Often I say we won’t really be getting there until the people you meet at the grocery story know what we’re talking about.)<\/p>\n

So you can imagine how thrilled I am that Brown University in Providence, R.I. is supporting a first-of-its-kind grass roots event next Monday night, attached to a session I’m teaching the next day for one of their courses.<\/p>\n

We’re playing with the idea of tying this to “how superheros got their superpowers” – the so-called “origin story,” like Peter Parker and his radioactive spider – to help people see that they may be capable of more than they realized. And in that context, we realized we have three different types of “superpatients”, who will present:
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